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Tejon Ranch Company (NYSE: TRC), based in Lebec, California, is one of the largest private landowners in California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The company was incorporated in 1936 to organize the ownership of a large tract of land that was consolidated from four Mexican land grants acquired in the 1850s and 1860s by ranch founder Edward Fitzgerald Beale .
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 El Tejon was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [4] [5] and the grant was patented to Aguirre and del ...
Edward F. Beale, the federal Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California, established this as the first Indian reservation in California in 1853. [2] The 75,000-acre Tejon Reservation (30,000 ha) was within the private Rancho El Tejón Mexican land grant. Beale hoped if the land claims were upheld the land could be purchased by the federal ...
The Sebastian Indian Reservation (1853–1864) was established in 1853 by Edward F. Beale on Rancho El Tejon lands, that became part of the Tejon Ranch. It was the first Indian reservation in California. At its establishment it was 763,000 acres (309,000 ha) but was reduced to 25,000 acres (10,000 ha).
The lake area was to the west of Rancho La Liebre, an 1846 Mexican land grant now part of Tejon Ranch. Lake Hughes was named for Judge Griffith (Patrick) Hughes, who homesteaded the area around the turn of the 20th century. [4] Settlers were drawn to the area because water was more plentiful than in the drier Antelope Valley.
Now Fort Tejon State Historic Park in the Tejon Pass area. 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake – moment magnitude of 7.9, average slip along the fault was 4.5 meters (15 ft) Monolith Cement Works: supplied concrete for the construction of Hoover Dam and other major public works; east of Tehachapi Pass. Old Tejon Pass – Another ancient native trail ...
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The Tejon Hills are a low mountain range in the Transverse Ranges, in southern Kern County, California. [1] The highest point of the hills is Comanche Mountain, at 364 feet (111 m) in elevation. They are completely within property owned by the Tejon Ranch corporation. A conservation easement is currently managed by the Tejon Ranch Conservancy.