Port Ballona, California
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Port Ballona is an archaic place name for an area near the center of Santa Monica Bay in coastal Los Angeles County, where Playa Del Rey and Del Rey Lagoon are located today. Port Ballona was a planne
Lithograph issued by Moye Wicks depicting a conception of the completed Port Ballona harbor, ca.1887
Moses Langley Wicks (1889)
Port Ballona advertisement 1887
Rancho La Ballona
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Rancho La Ballona was a 13,920-acre Mexican land grant in the present-day Westside region of Los Angeles County, Southern California.
Port Ballona, California
…Playa Del Rey and Del Rey Lagoon are located today. Port Ballona was a planned harbor and town site from circa 1859 to 1903. The name comes from the Rancho La Ballona Mexican land grant. Port Ballona consisted of the current Del Rey Lagoon Park but conceptually also included the current Ballona Wetlands State Ecological…
Avila 1854 diseño depicting Paseo de Las Carretas
1858 survey
1868 survey
Augustin Machado