Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia

The municipal pier in downtown Manhattan Beach.The city is on the Pacific Ocean coast, to the south of El Segundo, and to the north ofHermosa Beach. To the east are the cities of Lawndale and Redondo Beach. It is one ofthe three Beach Cities in the South Bay.HistoryEarly inhabitants and European discoveryThe first known inhabitants of present day Manhattan Beach were the Engnovangasrancheria indians. The indians survived off of corbina fish they hunted in the shallows,along with other species of surf fish. The Engnovangas often made the 3 mile trek southto the salt flats in present day Redondo Beach, CA to harvest the mineral. The old SaltFlat is now occupied by Southern California Edison, roughly located on Herondo Streetand North Harbor Drive. The salty estuary was said to be only 150 yards from the oceanand the rough size of 120,000 square yards.In 1781, when El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles was established, asmall, one-lane dirt road was cleared to connect the Salt Flat and Los Angeles. AviationBoulevard now runs almost directly on top of the old Salt Flat road. Three years later, in1784, the Spanish government established "ranchos", or land parcels, all along the SouthBay. The land grants did not convey titles to the land; rather they simply gave permissionto migrant farmers to use the land as they wished. In 1822, the newly-establishedMexican government sold the land to the highest bidder. Some of the Ranchos purchasedby farmers were: Aguaje de la Centinela, La Ballona, La Tijera, and Sausal Redondo,which translates into "round clump of willows." (Note that many streets in the South Bayregion are named after these ranchos.) In 1822, Rancho Sausal Redondo (present day