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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\nBecause of its water supply from a natural spring, the Franciscan padres used Encino as their headquarters while exploring the valley before establishing Mission San Fernando in 1797.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1849 Vicente de la Osa built an adobe with nine rooms on Rancho Los Encinos. Twenty years later (1869), Eugene Garnier bought Rancho Los Encinos and, in 1872, built a French Provincial two-Story limestone house adjacent to the existing adobe. He was French Basque and the house was similar to those in his homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Garniers were energetic builders, and added much to the Rancho. They built a stone-line pond, in the shape of a Spainsh guitar at the site of the spring; they built a two story limestone building to serve as a bunkhouse and they built a roadhouse across the road (Ventura Blvd.) which became the focal point of the local Basque community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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