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A ranch (from Spanish: rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, ... “A small hacienda, with a small amount of land for cultivation, a small workforce, ...
Pacheco Adobe, built 1835 by Salvio Pacheco on Rancho Monte del Diablo The Guajome Adobe, built 1852–53 as the seat of Rancho Guajome. In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 [1] to 1846.
Rancho San Ramon (St. Raymond Ranch in Spanish) was a 8,917-acre (36.09 km 2) Mexican land grant in the northern San Ramon Valley of present-day Contra Costa County, California. Rancho San Ramon (Amador) was adjacent in the southern San Ramon Valley. It was given in 1833 by Governor Jose Figueroa to Mariano Castro and Bartolome Pacheco. [1]
Rosalino Sánchez Félix was born on "Las Flechas", a small ranch in El Guayabo, a small farming municipality in Sinaloa. [3] His birth name was Rosalino, but he preferred his nickname "Chalino" since he believed that Rosalino sounded too feminine. [4] He was the youngest of eight children. [3]
Rancho del Cielo is a ranch located atop the Santa Ynez Mountain range northwest of Santa Barbara, California. For more than 20 years, it was the vacation home of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The 688-acre (278 ha) ranch's Spanish name translates to Sky's Ranch or Heaven's Ranch in English.
Rancho Santa Ana del Chino was sold in 1893 to a San Luis Obispo real estate magnate and then, within two years, to a British syndicate. By 1900, a new syndicate of San Francisco and Los Angeles capitalists acquired the ranch and created a company to reconfigure the Chino townsite and work with the remainder of the ranch.
Ranchita (Spanish for "small ranch") is an unincorporated community in San Diego County, California. Ranchita is 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Borrego Springs. Ranchita has a ZIP code of 92066. [2] A notable feature is the Rancheti, an 11-foot-tall (3.35 m), 300-pound (136.08 kg) fiberglass Yeti statue erected on Montezuma Valley Road in ...
Rancho San Ramon (St. Raymond Ranch in Spanish) was a 20,968-acre (84.85 km 2) Mexican land grant in the southern San Ramon Valley of present-day Contra Costa County, California. Rancho San Ramon (Pacheco-Castro) was adjacent in the northern San Ramon Valley. It was given in 1834 by Governor Jose Figueroa to Jose Maria Amador. [1]