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They primarily produced hides for the world leather market and largely relied on Indian labor. Bound to the rancho by peonage, the Native Americans were treated as slaves. The Native Americans who worked on the ranchos died at twice the rate that of southern slaves. [6] The boundaries of the Mexican ranchos were provisional.
None of the rancho grants near the former border, however, were made after 1836, so none of them straddled the pre-1836 territorial border. 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 ...
Further back in history, California lands were organized into Spanish land grants or "Ranchos". 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.
The name of the rancho derives from the original designation of the Valley by the Portola expedition of 1769: El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de los Encinos, [3] with encino being the Spanish name for Oaks, after the many native deciduous Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) and evergreen Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees across the valley's savannah, which are still found on the park's ...
In the decade after the Civil War, the majority of the old ranchos in the Valley changed hands. In 1867, David Burbank, a dentist and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, purchased Rancho Providencia [24] [36] and 4,607 acres (19 km 2) of the adjacent Rancho San Rafael. Burbank combined his properties into a nearly 9,000-acre (36 km 2) sheep ranch.
Rancho San Antonio, also known as the Peralta Grant, was a 44,800-acre (181 km 2) land grant by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá, the last Spanish governor of California, to Don Luís María Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Army and later, commissioner of the Pueblo of San José, in recognition of his forty years of service.
A. Rancho Acalanes; Rancho Agua Caliente (Alameda County) Rancho Agua Caliente (Sonoma County) Rancho Agua Hedionda; Rancho Agua Puerca y las Trancas
Dominguez Rancho Adobe. The adobe of Manuel Dominguez, completed in 1826, is a national historic site. [11] [12] Battle of Dominguez Rancho. The Mexican–American War battle was fought on the rancho site. The Claretians have been based, and gardened, adjacent to the Dominguez Rancho Adobe since circa 1900. Eagle Tree. The tree that was the ...