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The Centinela Adobe and Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela
Westchester, Los Angeles, California
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Ygnacio Machado built this adobe in 1834 at the springs that watered the Centinela Valley, and it became the seat of a Mexican land grant of about 25,000 acres. The rancho passed to a Scottish owner and then to Daniel Freeman, who cut Inglewood out of it in the 1880s. The house is the oldest building left in the valley and is kept as a museum.
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