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Rancho Cañada de los Alisos was a 10,668-acre (43.17 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Orange County, California given by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to Jose Antonio Fernando Serrano in 1842, and enlarged by a second grant by Pio Pico in 1846. [1]
The adobe was built by José Serrano in 1863, on the 10,688-acre (4,325 ha) Rancho Canada de los Alisos granted by Governor Juan B. Alvarado in 1842 and Governor Pio Pico in 1846. It is the second of five adobe structures built by the Serranos on the rancho.
The Rancho was settled in 1819 by Leandro Serrano, and became the first non-native settlement within the boundaries of what would become Riverside County, California. Although Serrano applied for a land grant with Governor José María de Echeandía, during the Mexican administration of California, a grant was never issued. The only supporting ...
Serrano means "highlander" or "mountaineer" in Spanish. [8] When the Spanish missionaries came into the region, in the late 18th century they helped create the tribal name Serrano, distinguishing the people from neighboring tribes who were designated as the Tongva (Gabrileño—Fernandeño) to the southwest, and Kitanemuk and Tataviam to the ...
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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 ...
Lake Forest's origins lie in Rancho Cañada de los Alisos, granted in 1842 to José Antonio Serrano. By 1863, the community that grew up in Serrano's rancho came to be known as El Toro. From 1863, the community had been known as El Toro.
Jose Antonio Fernando Serrano Lake Forest, Irvine, Orange County Great Park, Jose Serrano Adobe, Orange County District 5. Misión Vieja: 1845 Mexican Governor Pío Pico: John (Don Juan) Forster: Mission Viejo; San Juan Capistrano—(on land to south with no title grant) Boca de la Playa: 1846 Mexican Governor Pío Pico: Emigdio Vejar