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Rancho Temecula was a 26,609-acre (107.68 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Riverside County, California given on December 14, 1844 [1] by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Feliz Valdez. [2] The grant extended south along the east bank Murrieta Creek to Temecula Creek and encompassed present-day Temecula , Murrieta and Murrieta Hot Springs .
Rancho Little Temecula was a 2,233-acre (9.04 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Riverside County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Pablo Apis. [1] [2] The grant was one of the few held by indigenous people. [3] The grant is south of present-day Temecula and is bordered on the north by Temecula Creek.
Temecula (/ t ə ˈ m ɛ k j ʊ l ə /; Spanish: Temécula, ; Luiseño: Temeekunga) is a city in southwestern Riverside County, California, United States. The city had a population of 110,003 as of the 2020 census [ 7 ] and was incorporated on December 1, 1989.
Following the Round Valley Settler Massacres from 1856 to 1859, the Mendocino War was the genocide of the Yuki (mainly Yuki tribes) between July 1859 to January 18, 1860, by white settlers in Mendocino County, California. It was caused by settler intrusion and slave raids on native lands and subsequent native retaliation, resulting in the ...
Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census , the population was 2,418,185, [ 3 ] [ 5 ] making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the United States.
Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).
The Temecula massacre took place in December 1846 east of present-day Temecula, California, United States. It was part of a series of related events in the Mexican–American War . A combined force of Californio militia and Cahuilla Indians attacked and killed an estimated 33 to 40 Luiseño Indians.
Temecula Creek, formerly known as the Temecula River, [2] runs 32.6 miles (52.5 km) [3] through southern Riverside County, California, United States, past the rural communities of Radec and Aguanga, and ending 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the original city center of Temecula. The creek is filled with boulders and is typically dry and sandy.