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Salas, Diana <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Cc: <br />Subject: <br />Attachments: <br />Dear Mayor and Council, <br />Manuel Escamilla <manueljescamilla@gmail.com> <br />Monday, May 18, 2020 9:19 PM <br />eComment <br />Ridge, Kristine; Rudloff, Lisa <br />Public Comment for Agenda Item No. #2013 <br />WPA report - Refugio Adobe.pdf <br />I appreciate the remarkable efforts that Parks and Recreation staff have undertaken to get these grants. <br />I simply wanted to bring attention to the proposed site at Raitt/Myrtle. The park appears to be in the <br />approximate [best guess] location of the "El Refugio" adobe owned by Jose Sepulveda. According to Chris <br />Jepsen at the OC Archives: <br />"it looks like the main adobe's location was about '/< mile south of 1st St. and '/ mile west of Bristol, just <br />east of what was then the end of Artesia St. (now east of the the NE corner of Raiff and Myrtle)." <br />This adobe is the oldest known European structure that was located within the present boundaries of Santa Ana. <br />I've attached the relevant research and background provided by Chris to be included in the public record. <br />Further information on early adobes can be found in the Santa Ana History Room's WPA collection. <br />If at all possible I believe that: <br />1. The park should be named in honor of the El Refugio Adobe <br />2. a)That the final design incorporate a historical marker if possible within the existing funding level. or <br />b) Provide a space in which a future marker may be placed pending additional funding. <br />Stay golden, <br />Manny Escamilla <br />Manuel J. Escamilla <br />httl)s://www.escamillaforsantaatia.org/ <br />https://www.facebook.com/MannvForSA/ <br />btti)s://www.instagram.com/full metal archivist/ <br />Master of Urban and Regional Planning I Design and Development, 2018 <br />UCLA I Luskin School of Public Affairs I Department of Urban Planning <br />Master of Library and Information Science I Archival Studies, 2014 <br />UCLA I Graduate School of Education I Department of Information Science <br />Mobile 714.585.5523 <br />