Editing Inglewood, California (section)

===Mexican era===
[[File:Centinela Adobe, Los Angeles.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Centinela Adobe]] was built in 1834 by Don [[Rancho La Ballona#Ygnacio Machado (1797–1878)|Ygnacio Machado]], a [[Californio]] ranchero who owned [[Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela]].]]
Later, Avila constructed a three-room adobe house on a slight rise overlooking the creek that ran from Centinela Springs all the way to the ocean. According to the LAOkay web site,<ref>{{cite news |title=Things To Do in Los Angeles |work=LAOkay.com |url=http://www.laokay.com/AdobeSites.htm#Inglewood|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208201225/http://www.laokay.com/AdobeSites.htm}}</ref> this adobe was built where the present baseball field is in the park. It no longer exists.

In 1834, Ygnacio Machado, one of the sons of Jose Machado, built the [[Centinela Adobe]],<ref name="GW"/>{{Rp|unpaged [xv]|date=May 2009}} which sits on a rise above the present Interstate 405 ([[Interstate 405 (California)|San Diego Freeway]]) and is used as the headquarters of the Centinela Valley Historical Society.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofinglewood.org/depts/rec/centinela_adobe/default.asp |title=City of Inglewood : Departments |access-date=January 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601102936/http://www.cityofinglewood.org/depts/rec/centinela_adobe/default.asp |archive-date=June 1, 2009 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Two years later, Ygnacio<ref>Waddingham used the spelling ''Ignacio'' for both Avila and Machado.</ref> was granted the {{convert|2220|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela]], though this land had already been claimed by Avila.<ref name="GW"/>{{Rp|unpaged [xv]|date=May 2009}}