Join us for the 30th Anniversary of the founding of GSHASC celebration in person outside at the historic Dominguez Rancho Adobe in Rancho Dominquez. Since 1993 GSHASC has hosted Viva la Fiesta celebration to honor Hispanic Heritage Month. As the years pass, the Fiesta continues, even when the venue changes. The first fiesta was held in 1993 at our then home base at the Santa Fe Springs Library. In 2003 at the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Monument (Olvera Street) where we began a new tradition of holding the Fiesta at a historic California landmark site. This year instead of a formal presentation we invite you to a mingle and discover the grounds of this Dominguez Rancho Adobe. If you wish to tour the Adobe, you will need to verify an RSVP via yourself ahead of time.
Learn the rich history behind the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum, which started out as the Rancho San Pedro, the first Spanish land grant given to Juan Jose Dominguez in 1784. Learn about the family that started the Rancho and built the homestead adobe, the people that worked on the Rancho and the history of the South Bay Area.
There will be reenactments going on via individuals dressed in period costumes for the Battle of Dominguez Hill on Saturday, October 1, 2022 where we will meet at 10am. If you wish to walk around and discover them or take a tour of the museum, we advise you to do so.
Reservations are supposedly not required to visit the museum, since the event is an open house event. But if you wish you can call their office at (310) 603-0088. Learn more about the culture in California during the Mexican period. Please note we are meeting individually as a meet up. The Rancho Adobe Museum will not offer us a non-profit rate and so it is cost prohibitive for our organization to meet as a group and use their facilities. We will plan to meet at a restaurant afterwards at 1:30pm, if you wish to join the group, information on where we will meet will be announced before the event. For a complete calendar of events that day and for Sunday, October 2, please hit here.
The Battle of Dominguez Rancho was a military engagement of the Mexican-American War. It occurred on October 8 and 9, 1846, when a series of skirmishes took place on and near the Dominguez Rancho 12 miles north of San Pedro harbor.
Collectively known as the Battle of Dominguez Rancho, the Battle of Dominguez Hills, or the Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun, the clash between Americans and Californios was a significant, if often over-looked, event in the War for California that concluded when Mexico ceded the territory of Alta California to the United States. In fact, the battle was the last clear victory for the local population.
During this battle, a small handful of California troops, led by Jose Antonio Carrillo, successfully held off the invasion of La Pueblo de Los Angeles by American Marines, under the command of U.S. Navy Captain William Mervine. During the skirmish, 4 US Marines were killed. The Californios suffered no casualties.
