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Rancho del Cielo is a ranch located atop the Santa Ynez Mountain range northwest of Santa Barbara, California. For more than 20 years, it was the vacation home of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The 688-acre (278 ha) ranch's Spanish name translates to Sky's Ranch or Heaven's Ranch in English.
None of the rancho grants near the former border, however, were made after 1836, so none of them straddled the pre-1836 territorial border. The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is ...
Spanish Ranch is an unincorporated community in Plumas County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 3668 feet (1118 m). [1] Spanish Ranch is located 1.25 miles (2.0 km)north- northeast of Meadow Valley. [2] The place was established by two Mexicans in 1850, and it developed into a distribution center for the numerous mining camps nearby. [2]
Hand-drawn diseño (map) of Rancho El Sur supporting Juan Bautista Alvarado's patent claim. Rancho El Sur was a 8,949.06-acre (36.22 km 2) [1] Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California, on the Big Sur coast given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Juan Bautista Alvarado. [2]
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Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
View of the Grant-Kohrs Ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana, U.S. A ranch (from Spanish: rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of farm.
Spanish Ranch may refer to: Spanish Ranch, California; Spanish Ranch Creek This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 04:37 (UTC). Text is available under ...