Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 107,762. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908. The city is in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, near Los Angeles International Airport.

The prehistoric residents of what is now Inglewood were Native Americans who used the Aguaje de Centinela natural springs in today’s Edward Vincent Jr. Park (known for most of its archives as Centinela Park). Local historian Gladys Waddingham wrote that these springs took the broadcast Centinela from the hills that rose gradually all but them, and which allowed ranchers to watch beyond their herds,” (thus the name centinelas or sentinels).

The native settlers of Los Angeles in 1781, one of whom was Spanish soldier Jose Manuel Orchado Machado, “a 23-year-old muleteer from Los Alamos in Sinaloa”. These settlers, she wrote, were ordered by the officials of the San Gabriel Mission “to graze their animals upon the ocean side of Los Angeles in order not to infringe upon mission lands.” As a result, the settlers, or pobladores, drove some of their cattle to the “lush pasture lands near Centinela Springs”, and the first construction there was the end by Bruno Ygnacio Ávila, who standard a allow in 1822 to build a “corral and hut for his herders.”^: unpaged The Place that is now Inglewood was at odds into two rancho grants: Rancho Sausal Redondo and Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela.

Later, Avila build up a three-room adobe house on a slur rise overlooking the creek that ran from Centinela Springs anything the way to the ocean. According to the LAOkay web site, this adobe was built where the gift baseball pitch is in the park. It no longer exists.