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  2. Southern California real estate boom of the 1880s - Wikipedia

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    The Southern California real estate boom of the 1880s, also the boom of the eighties, and sometimes just called the 1887 real estate boom, was the first big settlement push into Los Angeles County (including what is now Orange County), San Diego County (including what is now Imperial County), San Bernardino County (including what is now ...

  3. California's abandoned homesteads fascinated me as a kid ...

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    Here I am in front of our home with my brother and older sister. The five acres of land around the home were ours, but with few occupied properties nearby, the vast desert felt as though it was ...

  4. Casa de Shenandoah - Wikipedia

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    Casa de Shenandoah is the former estate of the singer Wayne Newton who used the property as a ranch for various animals. It is located on 39.5 acres (16.0 ha) in Paradise, Nevada, in the Las Vegas Valley. Newton initially purchased five vacant acres of the property in 1966 and gradually expanded it with several houses, including a mansion ...

  5. List of ranchos of California - Wikipedia

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    These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.

  6. Redman Hirahara Farmstead - Wikipedia

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    Redman Hirahara Farmstead is a complex including a historic house designed by William Weeks (1897) and a vernacular barn in the Pajaro Valley, south of Watsonville, California. A Japanese American owned farm which was maintained by local citizens and watched over by family friend, attorney John McCarthy, during the internment of Japanese ...

  7. These abandoned historic homes are on sale for as little as ...

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    Here are six abandoned historic homes for sale that you can buy right now. Located in the quaint town of Milton, North Carolina, the Gordon-Brandon House was possibly built circa 1850 by a local ...

  8. As California farms use less Colorado River water, worries ...

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    Leaders of several other groups, including Alianza Coachella Valley and Audubon California, said the water cuts under the new program come on top of lower-than-expected water use in the region ...

  9. List of ghost towns in California - Wikipedia

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    Abandoned Abandoned due to not being able to compete with nearby Julian: Calico: San Bernardino: 1881 1907 Abandoned [8] Abandoned due to an end to borax mining in the region Camanche: Clay's Bar: Calaveras