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Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was a land grant given in Maria Rita Valdez de Villa the wife of a Spanish colonial soldier, Vicente Fernando Villa.

ho Rodeo de las Aguas (Ranch of the Gathering Waters), named for the streams that emptied into the area from out of the canyons above it, Cañada de las Aguas Frias (Glen of the Cold Waters, now Coldwater Canyon
Coldwater Canyon

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) and Cañada de los Encinos (Glen of the Green Oaks, now Benedict Canyon
Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California

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Maria Rita Valdez was a granddaughter of Luis Quintero one of the original settlers
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 of Los Angeles
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Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was a land grant given in Maria Rita Valdez de Villa the wife of a Spanish colonial soldier, Vicente Fernando Villa.

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Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas (Ranch of the Gathering Waters), named for the streams that emptied into the area from out of the canyons above it, Cañada de las Aguas Frias (Glen of the Cold Waters, now Coldwater Canyon
Coldwater Canyon

Coldwater Canyon is a canyon running perpendicular to the Santa Monica Mountains in the city of Los Angeles, California. The canyon is traversed by Coldwater Canyon Drive and Coldwater Canyon Avenue , which connect the city of Beverly Hills with the community of Studio City in the San Fernando Valley....
) and Cañada de los Encinos (Glen of the Green Oaks, now Benedict Canyon
Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California

Benedict Canyon is an area in the City of Los Angeles, California near Sherman Oaks northwest of Beverly Hills, California...
)

Maria Rita Valdez was a granddaughter of Luis Quintero one of the original settlers
Los Angeles Pobladores

Los Pobladores de Los ?ngeles refers to the original "townspeople" or settlers of the city of Los Angeles, California. When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to settle what is now Southern California, he commissioned a complete sets of maps and plans to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new puebl...
 of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. After her husband’s death in 1841, Maria received the title to his ranch. The ranch was sold in 1854 to Benjamin D. Wilson and Major Henry Hancock
Henry Hancock

Henry Hancock was a prominent settler and land surveyor in early Southern California. He was the owner of Rancho La Brea, which included the La Brea Tar Pits....
. Hancock sold out to William Workman
William Workman

William Workman was an Irish-born Canadian businessman and municipal politician.Born in Ballymacash, County Antrim, Ireland, he immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Quebec in 1829....
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In 1868 Edward Preuss, purchased over for the development of a city to be known as the "Town of Santa Maria". Lots were platted of about five acres each, but dry weather came and the land reverted to the sheep.

The land next passed into the hands of Charles Denker and Henry Hammel, proprietors of the United States Hotel at Main and Market Streets in Los Angeles, and became "one vast field of lima beans", supplying the culinary needs of the owners' Hotel. The bean fields survived until 1900 when the land was sold to Amalgamated Oil Company for oil development.

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