Inglewood, CA news and local guide

Among the first settlers of Los Angeles in 1781 was Jose Manuel Orchado Machado, a 23-year-old muleteer from Sinaloa. Mission San Gabriel ordered the settlers to graze their animals on the ocean side of Los Angeles, away from mission lands, and they drove cattle to the pastures near Centinela Springs. Bruno Ygnacio Avila received a permit in 1822 to build a corral and hut for his herders and later built a three-room adobe above the creek, where the park's baseball field is now. The area was divided between Rancho Sausal Redondo and Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela. In 1834 Ygnacio Machado, a son of Jose Machado, built the Centinela Adobe, which still stands above the San Diego Freeway as headquarters of the Centinela Valley Historical Society, and two years later he was granted the 2,220-acre Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela, though Avila had already claimed it. Daniel Freeman acquired the rancho and in 1887 helped found the Centinela-Inglewood Land Company, which developed the city and ran a four-horse coach from Los Angeles to show buyers the land. Inglewood Park Cemetery was founded in 1905. Hollywood Park Racetrack operated there from 1938 to 2013, and George Foster founded Fosters Freeze, California's first soft-serve ice cream chain, in Inglewood in 1946. Sources Wikipedia: Inglewood, California