Before Beverly Hills built one of the United States’ most populous residential areas, a Hispanic-Mexican woman and descendant of slaves fled the city.
I call María Rita Quintero Valdez Villa and, in the 63 years since it came to life, it has been a testament to deeply transformative events, not only in the history of California but of Mexico and the United States.
So much so that he died in 1791 in New Spain, lived in Mexico and died in 1854 in the United States, without moving.
Fue la dueña de un vasto territorio de 1,800 hectares donde crio ganado y caballos con écito.
Although there is no doubt about what happened to his ranch, the “Rodeo de las Aguas”, the Beverly Hills authorities signal that Valdez’s life was the first house built in the city where it is located.
Bisnieta de un african slave, not one of the founders of the city of Los Angeles and hia of original fathers of what is now the north of Mexico, the life of Valdez reflects the dynamic intensities that characterize Los Angeles from its establishment.
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Who was María Rita Valdez
Valdez was born on May 21, 1791 and was killed three days ago during the Santa Barbara mission, when he was in California, when monkeys had crossed a decade of the Los Angeles People’s Foundation.
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“It’s not the Luis Quintero Valdez, which forms part of the 11 families recruited by the governor of Spain to find the city of Los Angeles, ”explains David Torres-Rouff, professor of history at the University of California, Merced