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1837 Juan Alvarado: Fernando Tico 17,717 acres (7,170 ha) 168 SD Ojai: Ventura: El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia: 1837 Juan Alvarado: Valentine Cota et al. 44,883 acres (18,164 ha) 231 SD Port Hueneme, Oxnard: Ventura: Santa Ana: 1837 Juan Alvarado: Crisogomo Ayala and Cosme Vanegas 21,522 acres (8,710 ha) 97 SD Oak View: Ventura: Santa Clara ...
The ranchos established permanent land-use patterns. The rancho boundaries became the basis for California's land survey system, and are found on modern maps and land titles. The "rancheros" (rancho owners) patterned themselves after the landed gentry of New Spain, and were primarily devoted to raising cattle and sheep.
La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose is a historic adobe structure built in 1837 in Pomona, California. It is the oldest home located in the Pomona Valley and in the old Rancho San Jose land grant. It was declared a historic landmark in 1954 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1975.
Rancho Santa Clara del Norte was a 13,989-acre (56.61 km 2) Mexican land grant on the Oxnard Plain in present-day Ventura County, California. It was granted in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Juan María Sánchez. [1] The grant extended along the south bank of the Santa Clara River, east of present-day Oxnard and encompasses El Rio. [2]
Rancho Los Gatos or Santa Rita was a 4,424-acre (17.90 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José Trinidad Espinoza. [1] The grant was northwest of present-day Salinas , bounded on the north by Espinosa Lake and Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas of his brother Salvador ...
Rancho San Julian was a 48,222-acre (195.15 km 2) Mexican land grant and present-day ranch in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José de la Guerra y Noriega. [1] The grant name probably refers to José Antonio Julian de la Guerra. The grant was located west of present-day Santa Barbara ...
Rancho Calleguas was a 9,998-acre (40.46 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Ventura County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Pedro Ruiz. [1]The grant was south of Rancho Las Posas, east of Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia, north of the Rancho Guadalasca, and west of Rancho El Conejo.
Rancho Tepusquet was a 8,901-acre (36.02 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day northern Santa Barbara County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Tomás Olivera. [1] The grant extended along the Sisquoc River and encompassed present day Sisquoc and Garey , northeast of Los Alamos .