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  2. List of ranchos of California - Wikipedia

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    Jose Ynes de la Luz Linares [20] 1,004 acres (406 ha) 88 SD Diamond Bar: Los Angeles: Punta de Quentin: 1840 Juan Alvarado: John B.R. Cooper: 8,878 acres (3,593 ha) 372 ND San Quentin: Marin: San Jose: 1840 Juan Alvarado: Ygnacio Pacheco 6,659 acres (2,695 ha) 40 ND Ignacio: Marin: Arroyo Seco: 1840 Juan Alvarado: Joaquín de la Torre: 16,523 ...

  3. Los Alamos Ranch House - Wikipedia

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    De la Guerra was able reconfirm his ownership of the land grant after California became a state, but it failed due to a decline in the price of beef, extended drought, and flooding. In 1876, Thomas Bell, John S. Bell, and James Shaw, purchased 14,000 acres (57 km 2 ) of land, part from Rancho Los Alamos and part from the adjacent Rancho La ...

  4. Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4 - Wikipedia

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    Congress approved an act on June 21, 1860, confirming the Town of Las Vegas Grant and authorizing the heirs of Luis María Cabeza de Vaca [sic] to select vacant lands in "square bodies, not exceeding five in number" (U.S. Public Law 167 1860). A map of the survey of Baca Grant #4

  5. La Peña Cultural Center - Wikipedia

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    La Peña is a registered 501(c)3 charity with tax exempt status that focuses on promoting the arts, and the building's façade is covered in a Nueva Canción inspired mural. The center teaches lessons on traditional Chilean music, art, etc. and also branches out into other Latin American and Spanish language fields with a focus on things South ...

  6. Rancho Peñasquitos, San Diego - Wikipedia

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    From 1857 to 1860, it was a station on that road for the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line between San Diego and Vallecito via San Pasqual, Santa Ysabel Asistencia, Warner's, and Rancho Valle de San Felipe. [7] The ranch operated until 1962, when real estate developer Irvin Kahn acquired the 14,000- acre parcel with the intent of building a ...

  7. 4S Ranch, California - Wikipedia

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    4S Ranch is an unincorporated, master-planned community in the North County area of San Diego County, California. [1] It is located about 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown San Diego and 13 miles (21 km) east of the Pacific Ocean, just outside the incorporated city limits of San Diego.

  8. Rancho Los Encinos - Wikipedia

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    The De La Osa rancho was a popular stopping point for El Camino Real and Camino Nuevo travelers, who could expect hospitality at the ranch house. The Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route between St. Louis, Missouri and San Francisco via Fort Yuma and Los Angeles passed through the rancho, making its first run in the fall of 1858. [ 12 ]

  9. José Enrique de la Peña - Wikipedia

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    De la Peña joined Urrea in an uprising to overthrow Santa Anna and restore the Constitution of 1824. While De la Pena was in Texas, he had kept a diary which was not published till 1955. It was located by researcher J. Sanchez Garza and subsequently translated into English by Carmen Perry of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.