Rancho La Providencia

[1] The majority of Rancho Providencia land north of the modern channel of the Los Angeles River is now part of Burbank.

The Burbank Equestrian Center and portions of the Rancho south of the river are now part of the city of Los Angeles.

[2][3] In 1834, Vicente de la Ossa (January 6, 1808 - 1861) was elected as Los Angeles councilman and served in this capacity for two years.

With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.

[7] In 1867, Alexander sold Rancho Providencia to David Burbank, a dentist and entrepreneur from Los Angeles.

Vicente de la Ossa was granted Rancho Providencia in 1843 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado .
Detail of the southeastern San Fernando Valley, from a manuscript map of Los Angeles and San Bernardino topography, 1880, showing the Rancho Cahuenga inholding within Rancho Providencia (shaded area, added).