The statue was dedicated in 1996 by Gordon B. Hinckley, then President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
In 1851, the Lugo family sold the Rancho to a group of almost 500 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) led by Captain David Seely (later first Stake President), Captain Jefferson Hunt and Captain Andrew Lytle, and included Apostles Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich.
Thomas Jefferson | Jefferson Airplane | Jefferson Davis | Jefferson | Jefferson County | Jefferson Highway | Jefferson Starship | William Holman Hunt | Leigh Hunt | John Hunt Morgan | Jefferson County, New York | The Hunt for Red October | Jefferson County, Alabama | Hunt Valley, Maryland | Thomas Jefferson University | Richard Morris Hunt | Jefferson City, Missouri | Hunt | Helen Hunt | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup | E. Howard Hunt | William J. Jefferson | Wild Hunt | Joe Hunt | Jim Hunt | Jefferson Hunt | Jefferson County, Kentucky | Jefferson County, Colorado | James Hunt |
The first County Supervisors in 1852 for Los Angeles were Jefferson Hunt, Julian A. Chavez, Francisco P. Temple, Manuel Requena, and Samuel Arbuckle.