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Rancho Santa Ana del Chino was a 22,193-acre (89.81 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Chino Hills and southwestern Pomona Valley, in present-day San Bernardino County, California. It was granted to Antonio Maria Lugo in 1841 by Mexican Alta California Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado . [ 1 ]
Isaac Williams (1799–1856) was an American fur trapper, merchant, later a rancher and owner of Rancho Santa Ana del Chino in what is now the cities of Chino and Chino Hills in San Bernardino County, California. [1]
He was the leader of Californio forces during the Battle of Chino and the Temecula Massacre. By January 1847, he was placed in charge of the Chino prisoners by General José María Flores. Lugo escorted the prisoners to the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino and released them. In March 1847, he met with the American John Charles Fremont in Los Angeles ...
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
John and Encarnación Rowland had ten children together. Encarnación Rowland died in 1851. Two of their sons, John and Thomas, married daughters of Bernardo Yorba and his wife of the Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana. A third son, William R. Rowland, married Manuelita, a daughter of Isaac Williams, owner of Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, and his
Chino's surroundings have long been a center of agriculture and dairy farming, providing milk products in Southern California and much of the southwestern United States. Chino's agricultural history dates back to the Spanish land grant forming Rancho Santa Ana del Chino. The area specialized in fruit orchards, row crops, and dairy.
Santa Ana del Chino: 1841 Juan Alvarado: Antonio Maria Lugo: 22,193 acres (8,981 ha) 182 SD Chino, Chino Hills: San Bernardino: Corral de Piedra: 1841 Juan Alvarado: Jose Villavicencia 30,911 acres (12,509 ha) 45 SD Edna: San Luis Obispo: Santa Rosa: 1841 Juan Alvarado: Julian Estrada 13,183 acres (5,335 ha) 73 SD Cambria: San Luis Obispo: San ...
Al's Auto Supply – Chain that operated in Washington, California, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Alaska; purchased by CSK Auto.Founded by Abe "Al" Wexler in Everett, Washington in the late 1950s; [1] [2] sold 15 store chain to Paccar in 1987; [3] Paccar sold chain (along with Grand Auto) in 1999 to CSK Auto which eventually rebranded stores as Schucks.