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Rancho El Cajón was a 48,800-acre (197 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pio Pico to María Antonia Estudillo de Pedrorena. [1] The name means "the drawer" in Spanish, and refers to the valley between hills. The grant encompassed present day El Cajon, Bostonia, Santee, Lakeside ...
El Cajon takes its name from Rancho El Cajón, which was owned by the family of Don Miguel de Pedrorena, a Californio ranchero and signer of the California Constitution.. El Cajón, Spanish for "the box", was first recorded on September 10, 1821, as an alternative name for sitio rancho Santa Mónica to describe the "boxed-in" nature of the valley in which it sat.
Lakeside was founded in 1886 when 6,600 acres of land surrounding the naturally occurring Lindo Lake were purchased by the El Cajon Valley Land Company, who immediately began to promote the new land as a town and built an 80-room Victorian-style inn, the Lakeside Hotel, at a cost of $50,000 (approximately $1,220,000 today [5]). Three years ...
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 ...
A fourth tract, the 48,800-acre (197 km 2) Rancho La Liebre, was granted in 1846. At the urging of Edward Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, the Sebastian Indian Reservation was established in 1853 on Rancho El Tejon, and Fort Tejon was established by the U.S. Army in 1854 on Rancho Castac. These were federal projects ...
Rancho El Rosario; Rancho El Sur; Rancho Las Encinitas; Rancho Los Encinos; Rancho Entre Napa; Rancho El Escorpión; Rancho Esquon; Rancho Estero Americano; Rancho Ex-Mission la Purísima; Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura; Rancho Ex-Mission San Diego; Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando; Rancho Ex-Mission San José
The district from 2013 to 2023. California's 53rd congressional district was a congressional district in the U.S. state of California.It was last represented by Sara Jacobs, who succeeded Susan Davis following the 2020 election.
Rancho San Bernardo (Snook) Rancho San Diego Island; Rancho San Dieguito; Rancho San José del Valle; Rancho San Juan de Las Secuas; Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores; Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos; Rancho Santa Ysabel (Ortega)