Water is the key to life and a natural spring in Encino is what drew the ancient Tongva tribe now extinct to the area thousands of years ago. More recently, Rancho El Encino was established in the 1800s as a result of a land trade between the priests at the San Fernando Mission and Francisco Reyes. The original eight-room adobe was a popular resting place along El Camino Real, now Ventura Boulevard.
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