Sunday, August 4, 2019

250th Anniversary of the Portolá Expedition Through Southern California

Another day for L.A. photographer Gary Leonard in tracking L.A. history with his camera lenses.

He emailed this yesterday:  "Today, August 3rd, is the 250th Anniversary.  The Portolá Expedition came upon the LaBrea Tar Pits.  It's all written down in the Father Crespí diary."


Photo courtesy of Gary Leonard


[Update 8/8/2019]

Gary wrote on August 7th, "250 years ago today The Portolá Expedition left Encino after camping there for two nights."


Photo courtesy of Gary Leonard

Then he added, "Seemed appropriate to mark the occasion by getting gas at the same location where they departed 250 years ago today."


Photo courtesy of Gary Leonard

For more about recent local activities commemorating the anniversary of the 1769/1770 Spanish land expedition, visit a chronicling by Paul R. Spitzerri at the Homestead Museum from this past Friday, August 2nd.

Read Los Angeles Revisited's previous blog post on Gary Leonard.

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