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Los Cerritos Ranch House, also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, was "the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period". [3] Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
Over several generations, their holdings included Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos, and parts of Rancho San Justo and Rancho Palos Verdes, totaling well over 100,000 acres. Parts of the towns of Long Beach , Bellflower , Paramount , Signal Hill , Lakewood , and Los Alamitos emerged from former Bixby-held lands.
Rancho Los Cerritos was a 27,054-acre (109.48 km 2) 1834 land grant in present-day southern Los Angeles County and Orange County, California [1] [2] The grant was the result of a partition of the Rancho Los Nietos grant. "Cerritos" means "little hills" in Spanish. The rancho lands include the present-day cities of Cerritos, Paramount ...
In 1866 Flint, Bixby expanded further, buying the 27,000-acre Rancho Los Cerritos. [4] Jotham was the manager of Rancho Los Cerritos and later bought a half interest in it through his own firm, J. Bixby & Company. [4] [1] By the 1870s, sheep ranching was in decline in southern California and Jotham Bixby began to sell off this land for ...
Between 1869 and 1897, the Rancho Los Cerritos land skyrocketed in value - from $5,000 for the entire ranch in 1869, to $50 an acre in 1897—when the Bixby Investment Company sold to the brothers William A. Clark and J. Ross Clark of Montana. In 1897, the Clarks purchased 8,139 acres of rancho land for $405,000.
Los Cerritos (sometimes called Los Cerritos/Virginia Country Club) is a neighborhood with approximately 700 homes and 2,000 residents located within the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach, California. Established in 1906, the Los Cerritos neighborhood has been used by the film industry of Hollywood with its historic, estate-sized homes. It ...
Aug. 3—A new and "permanent" affordable housing development in the city of Colusa is slated for construction after the Regional Housing Authority last month successfully closed on its financing ...
Rancho Camulos; Carrillo Ranch Historic Park; Rancho Los Encinos; Rancho Petaluma Adobe; Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos; Rios-Caledonia Adobe; Roberto-Suñol Adobe; Rómulo Pico Adobe; Ryan House and Lost Horse Well