Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos
Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos | |
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General information | |
Coordinates | 32°56′17″N 117°07′37″W / 32.938°N 117.127°W |
Construction started | 1824 |
Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos was a 8,486-acre (34.34 km2)
History
The Rancho Santa Maria de los Peñasquitos was the first Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County. Ruiz built an adobe home on the rancho, which was north of the Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, and nearby the Kumeyaay settlement of Awil Nyawa. Ruiz built the first ranch house on the rancho in 1824, which was later expanded upon.[2]
In 1837 Ruiz sold his ranch to Francisco María Alvarado - a grandnephew. After Ruiz died in 1839, Alvarado moved to the ranch, and lived in the adobe home built by Ruiz. Alvarado married Tomasa Pico (1801 - 1876), and they gave the property to their daughter Maria Estéfana Alvarado (1840 - 1926) when she married Captain George Alonzo Johnson (1823 - 1903) in 1859.[3][4]
With the
The rancho was also a way station on the wagon road to
Capt. Johnson sold the rancho in 1880 to Colonel Jacob Shell Taylor, founder of Del Mar. Charles F. Mohnike owned the ranch in 1910. In 1921 George Sawday and Oliver Sexon bought the ranch and stocked it with cattle. Real estate developer Irvin J. Kahn bought Rancho Peñasquitos in 1962.[9]
Historic sites of the Rancho
Rancho de Los Peñasquitos (Little Cliffs Ranch) is a historic 1823
Natural history
The Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve park also preserves
See also
- California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion
- List of Ranchos of California
- National Register of Historic Places listings in San Diego County, California
- Ranchos of California
References
- ^ a b c Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve Archived 2017-03-03 at the Wayback Machine from sandiego.gov accessed 5/19/2017
- ^ Ray, Nancy (19 July 1991). "Older Adobe Is Discovered in Los Penasquitos : History: The remains of an 1824 ranch house--the county's first--are found within the walls of the Johnson-Taylor Adobe and are of national historic significance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ Pio Pico Genealogy Database
- ^ "Los Peñasquitos Rancho", Historic Ranchos of San Diego by Cecil C. Moyer, Richard F. Pourade, ed. (1960)
- ^ [http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/265878 United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 142 SD
- ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
- ^ a b State of California. Report of the Surveyor General 1844-1886 Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line Stations and Mileage between them, derived from the newspaper article by a traveler to the Gadsden Purchase printed in the Sacramento Daily Union, 11 January 1858, p.4, A TRIP TO THE GADSDEN PURCHASE
- ^ "Rancho Peñasquitos – A History". Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^ Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Rancho Los Penasquitos Artifacts Interpretation Project" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
- ^ "Santa Maria de los Penasquitos Adobe Ranch House". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^ http://www.torreypine.org/parks/torrey-pine.html Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine The Torrey Pine . accessed 8/28/2010
- ^ C.Michael Hogan (2008) Torrey Pine: Pinus torreyana, Globaltwitcher, ed. Nicklas Stromberg [1] Archived 2012-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.torreypine.org/misc/related-links.html Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Torrey Pines State Reserve links . accessed 8/28/2010