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Rancho Jamul was a 8,926-acre (36.12 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, given in 1829 by Mexican governor José María de Echeandía to Pío Pico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1831, Governor Manuel Victoria reconfirmed the grant to Pío Pico. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Pío Pico, the last Governor of Alta California prior to the Conquest of California.. The Pico family is a prominent Californio family of Southern California. [1] [2] Members of the family held extensive rancho grants and numerous important positions, including Governor of Alta California, signer of the Constitution of California, and California State Senator, among numerous others.
Hollenbeck Canyon Wildlife Area signpost at trailhead. Hollenbeck Canyon Wildlife Area is located near Jamul and Dulzura in California.The former cattle ranch was designated a wildlife area in 2001, and forms a wildlife corridor between Otay Mountain Wilderness and Jamul Mountains under the protection of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. [1]
In 1829, Echeandía gave Pico Rancho Jamul, which was the first major piece of land he owned. [32] [33] [34] After receiving the ranch, Pico began stocking it with cattle and hiring workers to cultivate a cattle empire and become part of the landowning elite. [32]
Unfortunately she found Rancho Jamul in pieces, some parts sold to cover her late husband's debts, and some parts occupied by squatters, made legal by the California Land Act of 1851. This stated that “all Mexican land grants are public domain and available for resettlement until a federal land commission could verify the legitimacy of land ...
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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 Ex-Mission San Diego was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the grant was patented to ...