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"California in 1846" map shows geographic distribution of Spanish and Mexican land grants Mexican land grants of Tehama County, California (Bureau of Land Management map, 1997) These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals ...
Vacation ranch with nine contributing properties developed beginning in 1923 by newspaper heiress Cissy Patterson; an early and influential example of Jackson Hole becoming a haven for wealthy outsiders. [20] Now a guest ranch. [21] 16: Game Creek: December 2, 2019 : Confluence of Game Creek and Flat Creek [22
Bovet Creek begins in Coal Mine Ridge Open Space Preserve of Portola Valley Ranch, and is named after the local prominent ranch owner, Antoine Francis Bovet, who died in 1973. [5] Bovet Creek flows down along Valley Oaks Street in Buckeye Creek is a small tributary that enters from the east with origins in Palo Alto Foohills Park, including ...
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
Tejon Ranch Company (NYSE: TRC), based in Lebec, California, is one of the largest private landowners in California. [1] [2] The company was incorporated in 1936 to organize the ownership of a large tract of land that was consolidated from four Mexican land grants acquired in the 1850s and 1860s by ranch founder Edward Fitzgerald Beale.
Yolo Land & Cattle Co. is located in Yolo County, California, west of Woodland, California, and near the Blue Ridge Mountains of the California Coast Range. This award winning cattle ranch has been operated by the Stone Family since 1976. Their cow-calf operation consists of 700 Black Angus and Hereford/Angus cows.
Hale was an Irish immigrant who became one of the largest land owners in the west, thanks to marrying Catarina Castro, the daughter of a large Spanish grant holder in Mexico in 1859. [4] He bought 2,000 acres of Juana Briones's original ranch and was one of Los Altos' earliest large land owners. He and four other families lived on the Hale ...
In May 1990, the company agreed to sell a 6,700-acre Riverside County parcel for $275 million. [6] In June 1990, the offer was withdrawn. [7] In 1991, the company agreed to sell its assets for $739 million. [8] [9] The deal fell through that year and the company filed for bankruptcy protection. Its savings and loan was seized by regulators. [10]