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  San Fernando Valley Statistics and Facts
The San Fernando Valley is a geographic area which includes several cities and a large portion of the City of Los Angeles.
Note: The county's San Fernando Valley service planning area is larger than the geographic San Fernando Valley; the Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council provides a convenient service planning areas map that shows the areas included in each of the county's service planning areas.
The San Fernando Valley service planning area is larger than the geographic San Fernando Valley; the Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council provides a convenient service planning areas map that shows the areas included in each of the county's service planning areas.
library.csun.edu /mfinley/valley.html   (3339 words)

  
 California Mission History: San Fernando Rey de España
Mission San Fernando was the fourth mission founded in three months as Father Lasuén hurried to close the gaps in El Camino Real.
The hospice and convento house an important museum, with a seminary, archives, and archdiocese headquarters on the grounds.
A prominent feature at San Fernando is the very long convento wing which was used as a hospice, or hotel, during Spanish times when the missions were a day's ride apart on horseback.
www.californiamissions.com /cahistory/sanfernando.html   (509 words)

  
  About San Fernando - Our History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
San Fernando began March 9, 1731 when fifteen families of fifty-five settlers arrived from the Canary Islands at the Presidio of San Antonio and were welcomed by Captain Juan Antonio de Almazan in the name of King Phillip V of Spain.
Zebulon Pike visited San Fernando in 1808 as he was leading the exploration of the lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
San Fernando was blessed as a metropolitan cathedral, or the official church of an archbishop.
www.sfcathedral.org /about_OH.asp   (844 words)

  
 San Fernando Library
The San Fernando Library opened in November 1914 as a branch of the Los Angeles County Free Library.
This library, the first public library in the mainly agricultural San Fernando Valley, found its home in the Industrial Arts building of the San Fernando Union High School located at 130 North Brand Blvd. In the first year, 1,849 books were circulated to 156 borrowers.
The focus is on the entire San Fernando Valley area with links to various Chambers of Commerce in the San Fernando Valley which have a presence on the web.
www.colapublib.org /libs/sanfernando   (596 words)

  
 Mission San Fernando Rey de España
The economy at Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana was similar to the other missions in that they planted crops of wheat and corn.
San Fernando's most successful year was 1819 when it recorded 12,800 cattle, 7,800 sheep, 176 goats, 45 pigs, 144 mules and 780 horses.
Across from San Fernando is a beautiful and spacious park which adds immeasurably to the mission's importance as an historical landmark.
www.athanasius.com /camission/fernando.htm   (1680 words)

  
 SAN FERNANDO MISSION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
San Fernando Mission Rey de Espana, seventeenth of the twenty-one missions founded by the Franciscans, was established on September 8, 1797.
Its location was ideal, for it was in fertile country, and it was to become one of the major supply sources for the pueblo of Los Angeles (22 miles away) as it grew.
During the Mexican-American War most of the mission lands, covering much of the San Fernando Valley, were sold for $14,000; John C. Fremont used the mission as his headquarters.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/historic/san_fernando_mission.html   (167 words)

  
 City of San Fernando: Police
The City of San Fernando is located in the northeast corner of Los Angeles County's San Fernando Valley.
Situated between three major freeways, San Fernando is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles.
San Fernando was incorporated on August 31, 1911 and the San Fernando Police Department was established soon thereafter.
www.ci.san-fernando.ca.us /city_government/departments/police/index.shtml   (164 words)

  
 San Fernando Real Estate: San Fenando Valley California
In spite of its size, the San Fernando Valley is known for a strong, cohesive community.
With a population of only 24,000, for example, the city of San Fernando itself is one of the older cities in the area, with brick accents gracing its historic buildings.
The San Fernando Valley's residents are among the best educated in nation, and hosts one of the largest school districts in the nation with close to 200,000 students.
www.michaelgreenwald.com /sanfernando.html   (391 words)

  
 San Fernando History
San Fernando became the provincial capital on August 15, 1904 when the seat of provincial government in Pampanga was transferred from Bacolor to San Fernando under the governorship of Don Macario Arnedo of Apalit.
San Fernando which is noted for its sugar industry and for its finest taste of potable natural water is a melting pot and an attraction for big investment in real estate, manufacturing and commercial ventures.
A lawyer by profession, he was elected mayor of San Fernando and became famous for his international campaign and promotion of tourism and investment opportunities in his hometown.
www-rcf.usc.edu /~camiling/san_fernando_history.html   (2011 words)

  
 SAN FERNANDO
ough it represents the heart of progress of the Southland, San Fernando readily embraces change but is equally reluctant to give up its traditions and rich past.
Progressing a little further west and deeper into the history of the last century, the last train engine from Trinidad’s public transportation system which was dismantled in the 1950s, remains as a reminder of what life used to be in the older days when a trip to the capital used to take several hours.
The train station in San Fernando has long been demolished and was replaced b a new, more conventional concrete and metal structure that better suits the needs of the new generation of busses.
www.nalis.gov.tt /Places/places_SanFernando_journeythroughhistory.htm   (715 words)

  
 San Fernando Valley Business Journal Online - San Fernando Valley California business news"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
United Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley
The Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley Business Journal, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA.
www.sfvbj.com   (351 words)

  
 City of San Fernando: Historic & Visionary
In 1874, San Fernando became the valley's first organized community, thus earning the title "First City of the Valley".
San Fernando proudly offers accessible city services, a responsive city government, low business taxes and a range of programs for all ages.
San Fernando has a rich cultural history with a population of 25,145.
www.ci.san-fernando.ca.us   (109 words)

  
 Coslada, San Fernando y Mejorada del Campo (Madrid)
Coslada, San Fernando de Henares y Mejorada del Campo (Madrid)
Listados de negocios, profesionales y empresas en la guia de Coslada, San Fernando de Henares y Mejorada del Campo (Madrid).
Planos y callejeros de Coslada, San Fernando de Henares y Mejorada del Campo (Madrid).
coslada-sanfernando.es   (264 words)

  
 The Dayrits of San Fernando
Early in the 19th century, there were recorded movements of the clan to the towns of Lubao, Minalin and San Fernando.
However, due to the scarcity of records in San Fernando, many of the relationships still cannot be ascertained.
The family patriarch of the San Fernando branch is believed to be DON VICENTE DAYRIT who was gobernadorcillo of San Fernando in 1791 and 1796.
www.geocities.com /ivanhenares   (357 words)

  
 cbs2.com - Census Report: San Fernando Valley Rivals LA, NYC
The report also found that Valley residents commute an average of 29 minutes, 7.4 percent longer than the average Californian, and pay more for homes - average home prices in the San Fernando Valley are higher than in California and the nation, with a median of $524,800.
This is the first U.S. Census Bureau report released on the San Fernando Valley.
The report is a "boon to the business community, policy-makers, politicians, the social services sector and civic leaders," Blake said.
cbs2.com /topstories/local_story_342001800.html   (379 words)

  
 San Fernando Rey de Espana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although this new mission was to close the gap between San Buenaventura and San Gabriel, due to the attractiveness of the valley the mission was actually much closer to San Gabriel.
Usually connected to the church, at Mission San Fernando it was added later and stands separate from the quadrangle.
The convento was eventually used as a hog farm in 1896.
missions.bgmm.com /fernando.htm   (515 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "San Fernando Valley": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
By the 1g6os, his former family dwellings had disappeared, as had the ranch in the San Fernando Valley whose land he had purchased and which his oldest son, Perry (1892-1962), had cultivated.
At the same time, the City of Los Angeles was taking on its peculiar shape, spreading into the San Fernando Valley to the north, extending an annexed ribbon of land south to the port at San Pedro, and gobbling up most...
I A COMMON DISASTER On 17 January 1994, an unknown fault under Northridge in the suburban San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, ruptured and briefly thrust the ground violently upward.
www.amazon.com /phrase/San-Fernando-Valley   (692 words)

  
 San Fernando Valley Real Estate Testimonials
I feel very comfortable and assured in recommending Bob to my clients for their San Fernando Valley residential real estate needs.
If I decide to purchase another home in the San Fernando Valley, Bob will be the first person I call.
It also became apparent that Bob was very familiar with all the neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley and the Conejo Valley that we had an interest in.
www.san-fernando-valley-real-estate.com /Testimonials.htm   (1195 words)

  
 San Fernando Valley News
A federal jury on Tuesday ordered that two San Fernando Valley businessmen from the former Soviet Union be sentenced to death for kidnapping and strangling five people while extorting their families for ransom and then dumping the victims' bodies in a Northern California reservoir.
In the San Fernando Valley trifecta of Encino, Sherman Oaks and Studio City, common knowledge is that more exclusive, pricier properties sit south of Ventura Boulevard.
Five jurors who 20 years ago voted to convict a San Fernando Valley teenager of killing his mother said Monday they would have acquitted the youth had they known about new crime scene evidence and a second suspect never presented at trial.
www.latimes.com /news/local/valley   (5829 words)

  
 Mission San Fernando Rey de España
The mission is located in the middle of the triangle formed by Interstate 5, Interstate 405, and the Simi Valley Freeway (California 118) at the North end of the San Fernando Valley, to the North of Los Angeles.
Turn right at San Fernando Mission Blvd. just past where Sepulveda crosses under the 118 Freeway.
The mission is a short distance on the left at 15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd. (California Landmark 157).
missiontour.org /sanfernando   (295 words)

  
 San Fernando Messenger Service by Classic Couriers
Airport Parcel Pick-Up and Drop-Off to and from San Fernando
We provide full service messenger and courier services to the business and residental community of San Fernando.
Our drivers are fast, accurate and on time deliverying documents to and from San Fernando.
www.classic-couriers.com /city/sanfernando.asp   (89 words)

  
 San Fernando Valley DUI Lawyer
If you have been arrested for DUI in San Fernando or the San Fernando Valley or are facing criminal DUI charges in San Fernando Court, our experienced DUI attorneys are prepared to help.
The Law Offices of Lawrence Taylor is a nationally-known law firm of 8 DUI lawyers specializing in DUI defense exclusively: no clients but those charged with drunk driving are accepted.
We invite you to contact us for a free consultation about your San Fernando or San Fernando Valley DUI case and DMV driver's license suspension hearing.
losangeles.duicentral.com /san_fernando.html   (224 words)

  
 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY DIRECTORY: The best businesses directory in the San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley Best Products and Services - Main Directory Northridge, Granada Hills, Mission Hills, Porter Ranch, Chatsworth, Canoga park, West Hills, Reseda, Van Nuys, North Hills, North Hollywood, Studio City, Sherman Oaks
San Fernando Valley Best Arts and Culture Directory
San Fernando Valley Best Business and Professional Services Directory
www.valleybest.com /directories.htm   (144 words)

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