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Rancho San Vicente y Santa Mónica was a 33,000-acre (130 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given by governor Juan Alvarado in 1839 to Francisco Sepúlveda II, a soldier and citizen of Los Angeles. [1] The rancho included what are now Santa Monica, Brentwood, Mandeville Canyon, and parts of Bel-Air and West ...
San Vicente y Santa Monica: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Francisco Sepúlveda: 33,000 acres (13,355 ha) 143 SD Santa Monica: Los Angeles: Boca de Santa Monica: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Francisco Marquez and Ysidro Reyes: 6,656 acres (2,694 ha) 141 SD Santa Monica: Los Angeles: Novato: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Fernando Feliz 8,871 acres (3,590 ha) 223 ND Novato ...
Possibly Rancho Osa after Vicente de la Osa [7] Los Angeles Rancho La Puente: 1845 John A. Rowland, William H. Workman: Mexico 270 John Rowland, William Workman 48,790.55 acres (19,744.84 ha) April 19, 1867: 460 Spanish; la puente is a bridge over water: Rancho Puente de San Gabriel Los Angeles, Orange Case no. 127, Southern District of California
Rancho Boca de Santa Mónica diseño (1852) Rancho Boca de Santa Mónica was a 6,656-acre (26.94 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given by governor Juan Alvarado in 1839 to Ysidro Reyes and Francisco Marquez.
Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Mónica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John P. Jones and Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which incorporated as a city in 1886.
"Santa Monica", as an official place name, was first recorded in 1827 on a grazing permit, next in 1828 when the Rancho Boca de Santa Monica was granted to Marques and Reyes. Later, in 1839, the name was used again for Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica when it was granted to Sepulveda and Machado. Kuruvungna Springs was included in this rancho ...
The Sepulveda family sold 38,409 acres (155 km 2) of Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica for $54,000 in 1872 to Colonel Robert S. Baker and his wife, Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker. Bandini was the daughter of Juan Bandini , a prominent and wealthy early Californian, and was the widow of Abel Stearns , once the richest man in Los Angeles.
Rancho San Vicente was a 4,438-acre (17.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José de los Reyes Berreyesa. [1] The grant was located west of the Santa Teresa Hills at the south end of Almaden Valley. The grant was bounded on the north by Rancho Los Capitancillos. [2 ...