PORTOLA TRAIL CAMPSITE, 2 - View this location on map - The expedition of Don Gaspar de Portola from Mexico passed this way en route to Monterey to begin the Spanish colonization of California. With Captain Don Fernando Rivera y Moncada, Lieutenant Don Pedro Fages, Sergeant Josi Francisco Ortega, and Fathers Juan Crespm and Francisco Gsmez, Portola and his party camped near this spot on August 3, 1769. 325 South La Cienega Blvd , Beverly Hills, California Historical

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