#0624 Warring Park
Title
#0624 Warring Park
Site information:
Warring Park, 700 block of Orchard St, PiruWhile there still is a Warring Park, the landmark commemorates not this park, but the location where Portola visited a Piru village. Nothing remains of that site, as far as I know.
34.417096,-118.791419
Plaque information:
Private plaquePlaque text:
On August 11, 1769, the explorers and priests accompanying Portolá found a populous village of Piru Indians near this point. Carrying their bowstrings loose, the Indians offered necklaces of stones, in exchange for which Portolá presented them with beads.Registered 10/31/1957