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Don Bruno Bernal ran Rancho Santa Teresa after the death of José Joaquín Bernal, his father. José Joaquín Bernal (1762–1837), a member of the 1776 De Anza Expedition, was a soldier at the Presidio of San Francisco and by 1805 at the Pueblo of San José. In 1819 he retired from the army, and in 1826 he settled his family of eleven children ...
Santa Teresa was founded in 1834 as Rancho Santa Teresa, a rancho grant given by Governor José Figueroa to Don José Joaquín Bernal, a retired soldier who came to Alta California as part of the De Anza Expedition in 1776. [1] Prior to receiving the rancho grant, José Joaquín Bernal had already settled in the area since 1826.
Santa Clara: Potrero de Santa Clara: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: James Alexander Forbes: 1,939 acres (785 ha) 77 ND San Jose: Santa Clara: Tres Ojos de Agua: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: Nicolas Dodero 176 acres (71 ha) 285 SD Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz: Los Corralitos: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: Jose Amesti 15,440 acres (6,248 ha) 175 SD, 398 SD, 399 SD ...
In 1826, José Joaquín Bernal, a former soldier in the Mexican Army, settled near Santa Teresa Spring with his family and established Rancho Santa Teresa. The Santa Teresa Hills were part of the San Jose Pueblo Tract II, between Rancho Santa Teresa to the north and Alamitos Creek at the southern base. [9] Rancho Santa Teresa started off as a ...
File:Don Bruno Bernal (Rancho Santa Teresa en S. Jose, California).jpg. ... Retrato de Don Bruno Bernal (Rancho Santa Teresa en S. Jose, California) Date: 19 th century
Rancho Laguna Seca (also called "Refugio de la Laguna Seca") was a 19,973-acre (80.83 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Juan Alvires. [1] "Laguna Seca" means "Dry Lake" in Spanish, and refers to the seasonal lake, Laguna Seca.
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
In the case of Orange County, there is record of José Antonio Yorba and Juan Pablo Peralta (nephew) being granted Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 1810, year of the commencement of the war of Mexican Independence. Santiago de Santa Ana is recorded as the only Orange County land grant given under Spanish Rule.