Compton City Hall

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The City of Compton is one of the oldest communities in Los Angeles County. Its heritage dates back to the early mission and rancho days of Spanish California. Most of the area that is included inside the corporate boundaries of Compton was a part of Rancho San Pedro. This land was granted in 1784 by the Spanish Crown to Juan Jose Dominguez, a retired soldier who had been a member of the pioneer colonizing expedition led by Captain Gaspar de Portola and Junipero Serra, the Franciscan missionary. Rancho San Pedro originally comprised more than 75,000 acres stretching from the Los Angeles River east, beginning at what is now the northeast corner of the City of Compton and extending west and south to the Pacific Ocean, taking in all of what is now Gardena, Torrance, the Palos Verdes Hills and the entire San Pedro-Wilmington Harbor area. Ten years after the United States acquired California; Rancho San Pedro became one of the first of the original Spanish land grants to receive full confirmation of title under a federal patent awarded to the Dominguez heirs by President James Buchanan. The entire area now know as Compton was included in a tract purchased in 1866 by two Americans, Francis P.F. Temple and Fielding W. Gibson, at a sheriff's sale. The tract contained slightly more than a Spanish square league, which translates into something over 4,660 acres. Settlement of the Temple & Gibson tract began in July 1867, when Harmon Higgins and John K. Morris each bought 80 acres...

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