Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy

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Coordinates: 34°19′12″N 119°06′00″W / 34.320°N 119.100°W / 34.320; -119.100
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Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy was a 17,773-acre (71.92 km2) Mexican land grant in the Santa Clara River Valley, in present-day Ventura County, California, and granted in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Manuel Jimeno Casarin.[1] The rancho lands include the modern communities of Saticoy and Santa Paula along the Santa Clara River.[2]

History

Micheltorena granted four leagues to Casarin. Manual Jimeno Casarin served as

María de las Angustias, the daughter of José de la Guerra y Noriega. Casarin, who lived in Monterey, also owned Rancho Salsipuedes in Santa Cruz County and Rancho Jimeno in Yolo County. Unlike many land grants holders, Casarin was not required to show any use or development of the land and apparently he did not use the land, either for agriculture or ranching. He died in 1853 during a visit to Mexico.[3]

Levi Parsons, Eugene Casserly, J. B. Crocket, David Mahoney and others, purchased the rancho from Casarin in 1852.[4]

With the

Public Land Commission in 1853,[5][6] and the grant was patented to John P. Davidson in 1872.[7]

In the 1850s, the ranch came under the ownership of T. Wallace More, and his brothers Andrew and Henry, owners also of the neighboring

Rancho Mission Vieja de la Purisma
. The drought of 1863 and 1864 forced the More brothers to dissolve their partnership and divide up their lands.

George G. Briggs, of Marysville, California, purchased the rancho from the More Brothers in 1862, planning to plant fruit orchards. Discouraged by droughts and the death of his wife, Briggs returned to northern California in 1864. In 1867 Briggs subdivided the rancho and sold it for smaller 150-acre (0.61 km2) farms.[9][10]

In 1872 Nathan Weston Blanchard, purchased 2,700 acres (10.9 km2) from Briggs and founded

Union Oil Company
.

After the patent was issued, a dispute arose over the boundary between Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy and the adjacent Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura.[11]

When the St. Francis Dam broke in 1928 upstream a devastating flood came down the river, very wide at a speed of 5 miles (8 km) per hour, adding the rancho's river adjacent settlements to the losses and destruction.

References

  1. ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  2. ^ Diseño del Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy
  3. ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9
    .
  4. ^ Thompson and West, History of Santa Barbara & Ventura Counties California, Pages 256-257, Howell North Books, Berkeley, California
  5. ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 328 SD
  6. ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
  7. ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Cleland, Robert G.,1953,The Place Called Sespe:The History of a California Ranch, C. F. Braun, Alhambra, CA
  9. ISBN 978-0-520-08947-1
  10. ISBN 978-0-292-75174-3
  11. ^ More v. Steinbach, U.S. Supreme Court, 127 U.S. 70 (1888)

34°19′12″N 119°06′00″W / 34.320°N 119.100°W / 34.320; -119.100

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