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Alisal, or El Alisal (The Sycamores), was a Californio settlement located on the lands of the Rancho Santa Rita near the site of an Indian ranchera, around the Francisco Solano Alviso Adobe, called El Alisal (The Sycamores), [1] one of the earliest houses built in the Livermore Valley in 1844. Note that even though the database and plaque use ...
Rancho El Alisal was a 8,912-acre (36.07 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California, given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to the brothers Feliciano and Mariano Soberanes and to William Edward Petty Hartnell. [1] Alisal means Alder tree (sycamore) in Spanish.
Jackson was a co-founder of the Santa Barbara Riding and Hunt Club, in the suburb of Hope Ranch, alongside Amy DuPont, Charles E. Jenkins, Harold S. Chase, Dwight Murphy, C.K.G. Billings, John Mitchell, George Owen Knapp, Peter Cooper Bryce, Col. G. Watson French and F. W. Leadbetter in the 1920s.
Lummis House, also known as El Alisal, is a Rustic American Craftsman stone house built by Charles Fletcher Lummis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [4] Located on the edge of Arroyo Seco in northeast Los Angeles , California , the house's name means " alder grove " in Spanish .
Rancho Santa Teresa was a 9,647-acre (39.04 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to José Joaquín Bernal. [1] The grant extended west from Coyote Creek to the Santa Teresa Hills , and included present-day Santa Teresa .
Lummis died November 25, 1928, [17] in Los Angeles, California. He was cremated, and his ashes were placed in a vault in a wall at El Alisal. [18] Supporters bought his home El Alisal, which was until 2015 used as the headquarters of the Historical Society of Southern California.
The Alisal Fire ignited in the afternoon of October 11, 2021; it burned 16,970 acres (6,868 ha) and destroyed 12 homes. [22] One of the last blazes of the 2021 California wildfire season, the wildfire broke out near the Alisal Reservoir and strong northwest winds rapidly pushed the fire south through the rugged Los Padres National Forest. [23]
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.