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The land of modern-day Milpitas was divided between the 6,353-acre (25.71 km 2) Rancho Rincon de Los Esteros (Spanish for "corner of the wetlands") granted to Ignacio Alviso; the 4,457.8-acre (18.040 km 2) Rancho Milpitas (Spanish for "little corn fields") granted to José María Alviso; and the 4,394.35-acre (17.7833 km 2) Rancho Los ...
Many places throughout the U.S. state of California take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these indigenous languages.
Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases. ... Milpitas: 1835 José Castro: José María Alviso: 4,458 acres ...
The lodge building, designed by architect Julia Morgan, replaced and expanded upon an earlier wooden structure known as the Milpitas Ranch House which was destroyed by fire in the 1920s. The 1930 hotel has also been known as Milpitas Hacienda , [ 3 ] Hacienda Guest Lodge [ 4 ] and Milpitas Ranchhouse , under which name the property was placed ...
Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages. Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley.
One week after an Altadena couple — married for more than 30 years and beloved in their neighborhood — was found slain in their home, friends and family held a candlelight vigil in their honor ...
Rancho Los Tularcitos was a 4,394-acre (17.78 km 2) Spanish land concession in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1821 to José Loreto Higuera by the last Spanish governor of Alta California, Pablo Vicente de Solá. The land grant was confirmed by Mexican Governor Juan Alvarado in 1839. [1]
Plat (map) of the Milpitas Rancho, 1862. Rancho Milpitas was a 4,458-acre (18.04 km 2) Mexican land grant in Santa Clara County, California. [1] [2] The name comes from the Nahuatl "milpan", a term meaning "in the field". Therefore, Milpitas could be translated as "little fields". The grant included what is now the city of Milpitas.