Sonagna or Sonanga is a former

Tongva The Tongva ( ) are an Indigenous peoples of California, Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Channel Islands of California, Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately . In the precolonial era, the peop ...

-Gabrieleño Native American settlement at or near what is now San Marino High School in

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. It was located recorded as being located at "Mr. White's farm" which referred to the ranch of Miguel Blanco who owned

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. Of this location, H. D. Barrows commented:

Mr. White obtained a concession of five hundred veras (about 1370 ft) square, just north of the Mission, which contained inexhaustible springs of living water. On these 77 acres of one-time Mission land, which White later sold, he established a vineyard, an orchard, and an adobe home. The building still stands at the edge of the athletic field of San Marino High School, and anyone who goes there can visualize the setting of Sonangna, though it takes a feat of the imagination to erase from the scene the concrete boulevards, the clipped lawns and modern buildings, and substitute the natural pools and cienegas, the native grasses and shrubs, and the great oak groves which must have supported the Sonauitam in the best Gabrielino style.

It was recorded to be one of the principal villages in the area by Hugo Reid for the Los Angeles Star.

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Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California Former Native American populated places in California Former populated places in California Tongva populated places {{LosAngelesCountyCA-geo-stub

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