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Location of Santa Cruz County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Cruz County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.
Rancho Aptos was a 6,686-acre (27.06 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Cruz County, California given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to Rafael Castro. [1] The grant on the Monterey Bay was immediately downcoast of his sister, Martina Castro's Rancho Soquel , and upcoast of his father, José Joaquín Castro's Rancho San Andrés .
Aptos (Ohlone for "The People") [4] is an unincorporated town in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The town is made up of several small villages, which together form Aptos: Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley, Aptos Village, Cabrillo, Seacliff, Rio del Mar, and Seascape. [3] Together, they have a combined population of 24,402.
Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley is an unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. It is identified as one of several small communities with a combined population of 24,402 forming the unincorporated town of Aptos by the local Chamber of Commerce along with:
Pacheco Adobe, built 1835 by Salvio Pacheco on Rancho Monte del Diablo The Guajome Adobe, built 1852–53 as the seat of Rancho Guajome. In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 [1] to 1846.
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
The Rancho, covering 15,000 acres (61 km 2) to 22,000 acres (89 km 2) and much of eastern Los Angeles County, was operated by Palomares and Vejar as a sheep and cattle ranch. After receiving the land grant, Palomares built his initial adobe homestead in 1837 on land that is now part of Pomona.
Palomares and Véjar conducted sheep and cattle operations on Rancho San Jose, also growing crops for consumption by the residents of the rancho. In the early 1860s the west coast experienced an epic flood, followed by several years of severe drought which decimated the ranch's population of sheep and cattle.