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Soledad is a city in Monterey County, California, United States. It is in the Salinas Valley , 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Salinas , the county seat . [ 6 ] [ 8 ] Soledad's population was 24,925 at the 2020 census , [ 7 ] down from 25,738 in 2010 .
Rancho Ex-Mission Soledad was a 8,900-acre (36 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California. It was given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Feliciano Soberanes.
The ruins of Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad circa 1900.. Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, La Misión de María Santísima, Nuestra Señora Dolorosísima de la Soledad (The Mission of Mary Most Holy, Our Lady of Sorrows of Solitude), was founded October 9, 1791 by Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, the 13th of 21 missions in California.
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad. The Chalon people are one of eight divisions of the Ohlone (Costanoan) people of Native Americans who lived in Northern California. Chalon (also called Soledad) is also the name of their spoken language, listed as one of the Ohlone (alias Costanoan) languages of the Utian family. Recent work suggests that ...
Rancho Los Coches was a 8,794-acre (35.59 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to María Josefa Soberanes. [1] The name means "the pigs". The grant was south of Soledad and extended along the Arroyo Seco. [2] [3]
Draining 275 square miles (710 km 2), the Arroyo Seco River is the last major tributary of the Salinas River that enters before it reaches the Pacific.Most of the watershed lies in the rugged coastal range areas southwest of Greenfield and Soledad, and the drainage divide runs along the crest of the Santa Lucia Mountains to the west and the lower Sierra de Salinas to the northeast.
The Soledad Brothers were three inmates charged with the murder of a prison guard, John Vincent Mills, at California's Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. [1] George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette were alleged to have murdered Mills in retaliation for the shooting deaths of three black prisoners during a prison fight in the exercise yard three days prior by another guard, Opie G ...
Soledad Township was a defunct township in Los Angeles County, California. It existed prior to the abolition of townships in California. It was formed in 1866 when Tejon Township was divided between Los Angeles and the new Kern County. Soledad Township was the county's most extensive but least populated township.