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These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
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.
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]
Pacheco Adobe, built 1835 by Salvio Pacheco on Rancho Monte del Diablo The Guajome Adobe, built 1852–53 as the seat of Rancho Guajome. In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 [1] to 1846.
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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]
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
For a century-and-a-half, the ranch was owned by Burnett's descendants, until his great-granddaughter died in 2020. In 2022, Sheridan purchased the ranch for $320 million.