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Rancho San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana was a 35,971-acre (145.57 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Orange County, California. The grant was given in 1837 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Juan Pacífico Ontiveros. [1] The grant encompassed the present-day cities of Anaheim, Fullerton, and Placentia. [2] [3] [4]
Mexican Governor José Figueroa: Maria Catarina Ruiz Huntington Beach, Westminster, Garden Grove, Los Coyotes: 1834 Mexican Governor José Figueroa: Juan José Nieto Buena Park, Stanton, Cerritos, La Mirada: San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana: 1837 Mexican Governor Juan Alvarado: Juan Pacífico Ontiveros Anaheim, Fullerton, Placentia: La Habra: 1839
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Mission Viejo, San Juan Capistrano: Orange: Potrero los Pinos: 1845 Pio Pico: John (Don Juan) Forster: 523 acres (212 ha) 337 SD Cleveland National Forest Orange: Little Temecula: 1845 Pio Pico: Pablo Apis: 2,233 acres (904 ha) 55 SD Temecula: Riverside: Potreros de San Juan Capistrano: 1845 Pio Pico: John (Don Juan) Forster: 1,168 acres (473 ...
The French soldiers explained that 100 additional soldiers were coming; the Spanish colonists, missionaries, and remaining soldiers abandoned the area and fled to San Antonio. [11] The Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo volunteered to reconquer Spanish Texas and raised an army of 500 soldiers. [12] By July 1721, Aguayo reached the Neches River.
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A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho San Juan was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and the grant was patented to Hiram Grimes ...