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Sky Ranch Airport, a 2,000-foot (610 m)-long dirt airstrip, was located northeast of the intersection of State Route 445 and Spanish Springs Road. This 1940s auxiliary field was the site of the first Reno Air Races, in 1964 and 1965, then was the location of the headquarters of the 126,000-acre (510 km 2) Rocketdyne Nevada Field Laboratory (NFL), which was used in the late 1960s and early ...
By Colleen Kane The specialty features of luxury homes are pretty commonplace: wine cellar, home gym, swimming pool and perhaps an equestrian stable. Yet for some of the most exclusive addresses ...
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.
By 1869, Cerro Gordo was the largest producer of silver and lead in the nation; teams of mules would travel between Cerro Gordo and Los Angeles, California. In its peak, the town was home to several mines, hundreds of structures (most were of the ramshackle variety), bars, a general store, and hotel.
The late actor’s home was officially sold for $8.5 million nearly one year after his sudden death on Oct. 28, 2023 Reuters 3 months ago US pending home sales jump the most in more than four ...
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Rancho Punta de la Concepcion was a 24,992-acre (101.14 km 2) Mexican land grant in the northern Santa Ynez Mountains, in present day Santa Barbara County, California. It was granted by Governor Juan Alvarado in 1837, to Anastacio Carrillo. [ 1 ]
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 Punta de Laguna was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and the grant was patented to Luis ...