Yangna Plaque at Union Station
The main village of the Tongva, or Gabrieleño, Native Americans, Yangna was home to about 200 Tongvas, and was first encountered by Gaspar de Portolá during his 1769 expedition. Destroyed in the mid-1800s, it likely stood on a site that is now marked by nothing more than a center divider on the Hollywood Freeway. The Tongvas, who had lived on and near the Cornfield for three millennia, were decimated by succeeding onslaughts of Spaniards, Catholic missionaries, Mexicans and Yankees.
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This photo was invited and added to the Plaques & Memorial Markers in LA group.