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The original county seat of Santa Ana County is what is now Fort Defiance, Arizona. The county was named after the Pueblo of Santa Ana. The county was named after the Pueblo of Santa Ana. The area enclosed by the original Santa Ana County was in Judicial District No. 1 from 1847 to 1863, then in JD 2 until 1876, when it was absorbed by ...
Municipio de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; San Diego: Tecate: 1829, 1834 José María de Echeandía: Juan Bandini: 4,439 acres (1,796 ha) Not before Land Commission [note 14] Tecate: Tecate Municipality, Baja California, Mexico: Rosa Castilla: 1831 Manuel Victoria: Juan Ballesteros 3,283 acres (1,329 ha) 309 SD East Los Angeles, University ...
Further back in history, California lands were organized into Spanish land grants or "Ranchos". In the case of Orange County, there is record of José Antonio Yorba and Juan Pablo Peralta (nephew) being granted Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 1810, year of the commencement of the war of Mexican Independence .
The community of Las Trampas, New Mexico was founded the same year. The grant consisted of 28,132 acres (11,385 ha) of land on the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The settlers served as a buffer on the frontiers of New Mexico to fend off Comanche raids. By the mid 19th century the population of the grant area had grown to ...
Santa Ana Pueblo (Eastern Keres: Tamaya [tʰɑmɑjːɑ]) is a settlement in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States, of Native Americans who speak an eastern dialect of the Keresan languages. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined this community as a census-designated place (CDP).
Herbert O. Brayer, William Blackmore: The Spanish-Mexican Land Grants in New Mexico and Colorado, 1863-1878, in A Case Study in the Economic Development of the West (1949). William deBuys, Fractions of Justice: A Legal and Social History of the Las Trampas Land Grant, New Mexico, 56 N.M. Hist. Rev. 71 (1981).
LAS CRUCES - Four New Mexico organizations have partnered to establish a full-spectrum reproductive health care center in Doña Ana County, projected to be fully operational within the next couple ...
El Centro Cultural de México is an all-volunteer alternative space in Santa Ana, Orange County, California, focusing on transnational projects that link residents to communities all over Mexico through the arts, culture, and social justice. Through educational programming, which includes workshops in dance, music, art, and literacy, it ...