Walking in the Footsteps of L.A.’s Founders
About 1,000 people brave the heat to trek from San Gabriel Mission to El Pueblo Historical Monument.
“Wearing a white lace mantilla that cascaded over her head and onto a gauzy, floor-length white dress, the Corona grandmother joined about 1,000 people on a nearly nine-mile journey from San Gabriel Mission to El Pueblo Historical Monument ”” birthplace of the city ”” in downtown Los Angeles.
The walk was a reenactment of a trip that was undertaken 225 years ago, following the footsteps of 44 Mexican nationals (four soldiers and 11 families), known as Los Pobladores ”” or town settlers. Those settlers trekked from San Gabriel Mission to Los Angeles in September 1781 and founded a tiny community near the Los Angeles River that today is one of the world’s largest cities. “
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September 5th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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