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Hand-drawn diseño (map) of Punta de Pinos rancho on December 31, 1852. Rancho Punta de los Piños was a 2,667-acre (10.79 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to José María Armenta, and regranted to José Abrego in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena. [1]
English: Official map of Monterey County, California, USA, 1898 at the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. This portion of the map shows Rancho San José y Sur Chiquito and the Rancho Potrero de San Carlos areas.
Location of Monterey County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Monterey County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monterey County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
José Abrego (3 Mar 1813 – 3 April 1878) was a 19th-century Californian merchant. He arrived in Alta California in 1834 as a member of Compania Cosmopolitan A, part of the Hijar-Padrés colony. It was led by José Maria Hijar and Don José Maria Padrés. Abrego became a merchant in Monterey, California, and held a variety of political offices ...
Original hotel, 1883 Drawing of grounds from the book Mexico, California and Arizona; being a new and revised edition of Old Mexico and her lost provinces.(1900). Charles Crocker, one of California's Big Four railroad barons, established the resort through Southern Pacific Railroad's property division, Pacific Improvement Company (PIC), and opened the first hotel June 3, 1880. [3]
Guía Roji (Roji's Guides) is a cartography company based in Mexico City. Guía Roji was created in 1928 by Joaquín Palacios Roji Lara. Since that year, the characteristic cover color of the map books has been red. The first maps showed the reduced size of Mexico City in the 1920s. In the late 1960s, the number of maps began to increase ...
Rancho Aguajito was a 3,323-acre (13.45 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1835 by Governor José Figueroa to Gregorio Tapia. [1] The grant was south of Monterey and encompassed Hotel Del Monte, the present-day Naval Postgraduate School, and the Del Monte Golf Course.
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