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The Salinas River, which geologically formed the fluvial valley and generated its human history, flows to the northwest or 'up' along the principal axis and the length of the valley. The valley was named during the late 18th-century Spanish colonial Alta California period, and in Spanish Salina is the term for a salt marsh , salt lake , or salt ...
Salinas: Rare surviving rancho adobe of the Salinas Valley, built c. 1846 and associated with the influential Boronda family. [11] Now the centerpiece of the Boronda Adobe History Center. [12] 8: Frank LaVerne Buck House: Frank LaVerne Buck House: September 11, 1986 : 581 Pine Ave.
Rancho Guadalupe y Llanitos de los Correos was a 8,858-acre (35.85 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to Juan Malarín. [1] The grant extended along the south bank of the Salinas River south of Chualar. [2]
Salinas Founders Day is an annual event held since 1869, that celebrates the history of Salinas. The 2017 event was held at the Salinas Train Station Plaza in downtown Salinas, and included tours of the First Mayor's House and the Monterey and Salinas Valley Railroad Museum, music, and historical talks. [63]
Salinas arrived at City Hall to see the full-sized bronze statue of the man who’d randomly helped his family 60 years ago. History: Amado Salinas serves desert community in tradition of his ...
The Salinan are a Native American tribe whose ancestral territory is in the southern Salinas Valley and the Santa Lucia Range in the Central Coast of California. Today, the Salinan governments are now working toward federal tribal recognition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Map of Salinan placenames, dialects, and tribelets
Chateau Coralini (also known as Rancho Las Palmas or Hiram Corey house) The Rancho Las Palmas estate was part of the original 8,446-acre (34.18 km 2) Rancho Buena Vista, Spanish land concession in the Salinas Valley, in present day Monterey County, California that was given in 1795 to José Maria Soberanes (1753-1803) and Joaquin Castro.
Rancho San Bernardo was a 13,346-acre (54.01 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Mariano de Jesus Soberanes and Juan Soberanes. [1] The grant extended along the west bank of the Salinas River. The grant encompassed present-day San Ardo. [2]