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The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is now in Mexico rather than in the U.S. state of California. Since those ranchos remained in Mexico, in today's Mexican state of Baja ...
The ranchos established permanent land-use patterns. The rancho boundaries became the basis for California's land survey system, and are found on modern maps and land titles. The "rancheros" (rancho owners) patterned themselves after the landed gentry of New Spain, and were primarily devoted to raising cattle and sheep.
They were granted the one square league addition (7500 acres), which became known as the Rancho San Jose Addition, in 1840. This increased the size of the Rancho San Jose to 22,000 acres. In 1846, Arenas sold his one third share of Rancho San Jose to Henry Dalton of Rancho Azusa de Dalton. This brought the Ranch back down to 15,000 acres in size.
Thomas Russell's 1855 diseño. Rancho Potrero Y Rincon de San Pedro Regalado was one of the smallest Mexican land grants in Alta California. [1] Unlike the huge ranchos comprising tens of thousands of acres, this one was only 500 varas by 600 varas (91.53 acres) [2] of the pasture land (potrero) originally belonging to Mission Santa Cruz.
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
Pacheco spent a good portion of his life acquiring various ranchos of California. He was granted Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe, located in southern Santa Clara County and northern San Benito County, in two parts: San Felipe in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa and Ausaymas in 1836 by Governor Nicolás Gutiérrez. [3] [4]
Pages in category "Ranchos of California" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 470 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Stearns's ranchos, 1875. By 1860, Stearns was the most important land owner in Southern California, and owned Rancho La Habra, Rancho Los Coyotes, Rancho San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana, Rancho Las Bolsas, Rancho La Bolsa Chica, Rancho Jurupa and Rancho La Sierra (Sepulveda). He was hit hard by the drought of 1863–64, which caused the loss of ...