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The José Serrano Adobe is a historic 1863 adobe house in Lake Forest, Orange County, California. The property is one of four historic buildings in the Heritage Hill Historic Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1976. [1] [2]
Nearly 150 years later, in 1991, El Toro incorporated and changed its name to Lake Forest. Rancho Cañada de los Alisos was a 10,668-acre (43.17 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Orange County, California given by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to Jose Antonio Fernando Serrano in 1842, and enlarged by a second grant by Pio Pico in 1846. [1]
Sáttítla Highlands National Monument is a national monument in the Medicine Lake Highlands of the Cascade Range of Northern California. The monument protects 224,676 acres (909.23 km 2) of forest and mountain habitat in Siskiyou County from development. The name Sáttítla means "obsidian place" in the Achomawi language. [1]
Lake Forest is a city in Orange County, California, United States.The population was 85,858 at the 2020 census.. Lake Forest incorporated as a city on December 20, 1991. Prior to incorporation, the community had been known as El Tor
The Sattitla Highlands National Monument in northern California will preserve 224,000 acres across three national forests. The area is sacred to the Pit River and Modoc tribes.
The José Serrano Adobe in Lake Forest is one of several dwellings constructed by Don José Serrano on the Rancho Cañada de los Alisos. The original residence near Aliso Creek no longer exists. Mexico won independence from Spain in 1822, keeping the Alta California province, and secularized the missions in the 1830s. Former mission lands were ...
Serrano means "highlander" or "mountaineer" in Spanish. [8] When the Spanish missionaries came into the region, in the late 18th century they helped create the tribal name Serrano, distinguishing the people from neighboring tribes who were designated as the Tongva (Gabrileño—Fernandeño) to the southwest, and Kitanemuk and Tataviam to the ...
Various translations include "highlanders," "mountaineers," or "men of the hills." The area is also the homeland of the Serrano tribe of Native Americans, given that name by Spanish missionaries. The Greening family owned the golf course and put in the sewer system as part of the original water works well before most of the properties were ...