Rancho San Carlos de Jonata
Californio
politician.Rancho San Carlos de Jonata was a 26,634-acre (107.78 km2)
Jose Maria Covarrubias.[1] The grant was west of Mission Santa Inés in the Santa Ynez Valley, and extended north from the Santa Ynez River along Zaca Creek. The grant encompasses present-day Solvang and Buellton.[2][3]
History
José Joaquin Carrillo (1801–1868) was the son of
Rancho Mission Vieja de la Purisma
.
José María Covarrubias (c. 1809 – 1870), a Frenchman who became a Mexican citizen and came to California in 1834 with the Hijar-Padres Colony to be a schoolteacher. Covarrubias held several key government posts in
Island of Santa Catalina
land grant from Thomas M. Robbins.
With the
Public Land Commission in 1853,[4][5] and the grant was patented to Joaquín Carrillo and José M. Covarrubias in 1872.[6]
Rufus Thompson (R.T.) Buell (1827-1905) was born in Vermont. In 1853 Buell joined the
California Gold Rush, but by 1857 was dairy farming in Marin County, and in 1865, Monterey County
. In 1866, R.T. Buell and his brother, Alonzo Wilcox Buell, bought a quarter of Rancho San Carlos de Jonata from Joaquín Carrillo and José M. Covarrubias. By 1872 R.T had bought the entire Rancho, and dissolved the partnership with his brother Alonzo. A severe drought forced Buell to sell 11,000 acres (45 km2) of the rancho in the 1870s.
This property was sold in 1911 to the Danish American Company to establish a Danish colony called "Solvang". The remaining rancho was partitioned among his seven heirs upon his death in 1915.
See also
- Ranchos of California
- List of Ranchos of California
References
- ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
- ^ Diseño del Rancho San Carlos de Jonata
- ^ Santa Barbara County Rancho Map
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 156 SD
- ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine