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Celebration
of the Treaty of Cahuenga  The
event, held annually, commemorates the legendary meeting between Lt. Colonel John C.
Fremont and General Andres Pico on January 13, 1847, which ended the Mexican-American War
in California and paved the way for California and the western states to join the Union.
Known by many historians as the birthplace of California, this is
the spot where the Capitulation of Cahuenga was signed on a kitchen table of the six-room
adobe house of Tomas Feliz in 1847. It was formalized in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, thus ending the final chapter in the war between Mexico and the United States.
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