And Smaller than Some Forest Fires.
Named by the first guy to drown in it?
I think it’s near the Castle Auugghhhhhh..
I don’t know of a Castle Auugghhhhh. I’ve heard of the Villa Uuurrruuugghh.
If you want to be complete, it’s " El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula."
probably not…
City of Angels’ First Name Still Bedevils Historians
in any event, it’s no longer called that. It’s just Los Angeles.
The bronze plaque at the Olvera Street plaza beneath the statue of Spanish King Carlos III, who ordered “the founding of El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles in 1781,” is correct, Nunis said.
But a few steps away, the founder’s plaque, which calls the city El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles Sobre el Rio de Porciuncula – “the town of the Queen of Angels on the Porciuncula River” – is wrong, according to Nunis.
So is the inscription on the plaque beneath Felipe de Neve’s statue, which describes him as “founder of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles.” Not to mention the inscription on the carved wooden cross at the top of Olvera Street, which also refers in Spanish to “the town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels.”
Nunis blames much of the confusion on an early Franciscan priest who helped establish California’s chain of missions and in the mid-19th century wrote about his and Father Junipero Serra’s experiences.
Father Francisco Palou described how early settlers founded the future “town of Nuestra Senora de los Angeles on the banks of the river named Porciuncula.”
“The culprit was Palou. It was an honest mistake. But the pueblo was never called that,” Nunis said. “It was called El Pueblo de la Reyna de los Angeles.”
Rhodesia is available.
How about - and a 1/3 the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
I guess that doesn’t fall trippingly off the tongue, does it?
but not advisable.
If you look over at the bright blue state on the left coast…
There is a town in California named Plantation
Did anybody tell you not to pronounce it that way? My boss did and I told him next time to run the American place names by me before doing a presentation. Oops.
Unless you’re in Kansas and are talking about the Arkansas River.
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The name Doyce Nunis in that article jumped out at me.
Prof. Nunis was my father’s professor/advisor at UCLA way back in 1965 when my father was working on his doctorate.
When my father passed away about ten years ago (age 90-something), I tried to contact Prof. Nunis to invite him to the funeral, only to learn that he had recently passed away too.
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I found a topo map that shows it. I think it’s a long-defunct little community.
To find it: Start at the far upper-left corner. Follow the coastline down a ways, past Horseshoe Cove and a bit past Fisk Mill Cove, until you see Kruse Rhododendron Preserve State Park (it’s that prominently marked irregular polygon) just slightly inland from the coast. Then look just a little bit east from that. You should find Plantaton School and a bit east of that, Plantation.
Kinda hard to imagine any real plantation there, in the usual sense of the word. It’s mountainous territory.
SOMEBODY SAVE THAT POOR MAN BEFORE HE DROWNS!
Hey, lookee that! All caps.
AuntRhodie? (as in go tell aunt rhodie and her old grey goose being dead, if that is the line)
So anyway, isnt it all just going too far.
It wasn’t defunct in the 60’s when I visited. I see the Plantation Farm Camp is still active too.
It’s certainly not an incorporated town, though.
What did Tennessee? Same think Arkansas!
It’s a small world, after all!
In the early 70s my father spent a few months in the Raleigh Plantation inn hotel but it’s long gone.