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Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, [a] was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias, but was made a separate province in 1804 (named Nueva California). [1]
Alta (Spanish for "Upper") is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Auburn. The village is located off Interstate 80 and along the historical First transcontinental railroad .
Alta, a 2004 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey; Alta, Spanish term equivalent to the dance Saltarello; Acqua Alta, a novel by Donna Leon; Alta capella, a 20th-century musicological term for Renaissance wind ensembles; Alta IF, a Norwegian football club based in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Portolá Expedition of 1769–1770 / El Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco: La Expedición de Portolá de 1769–1770 (in English and Spanish). Translated by Maria L. Wait. Lafayette, California: Great West Books. ISBN 978-0944220061. (The Diary of Miguel Costansó)
Byron O. Clark established a nursery in the foothills in 1875, which he named "Altadena Nursery", a name he coined from the Spanish alta meaning "upper" and dena from Pasadena. In 1880 or 1881, Capt. Frederick Woodbury, and his brother, John Woodbury of Marshalltown, Iowa, purchased 937 acres (379 ha) known as the Woodbury Ranch. The land ...
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
The treaty was drafted in both English and Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo and signed by John C. Frémont, representing the American forces, and Andrés Pico, representing the Mexican forces. The treaty called for the Californios to give up their artillery, and provided that all prisoners from both sides be immediately freed.
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