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A group of schoolchildren got a real-life history lesson Thursday as they watched archeologists unearth a portion of a historic adobe's foundation at Campo de Cahuenga.
The ruins are beneath a parking lot next to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Red Line subway station now being built on Lankershim Boulevard across from Universal Studios.
According to historians, the adobe is where an 1847 peace agreement was signed ending the Mexican War in California.
So far, archeologists have uncovered the original rocks used in the foundation, pottery shards and nails, MTA officials said.
The exposed remains will be surveyed, inspected, photographed and documented before the site is covered over again because there are no city funds or definitive plans to permanently display the adobe foundation.
"We have a chance to look at [the foundation], explore it, interpret it," said Jim Sowell, MTA environmental compliance manager. "We can get so much information about the area's past."
About 80 children from the East Valley YMCA in Van Nuys...