Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana

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Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was a 63,414-acre (256.63 km2)

Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Pablo Peralta. The grant extended eastward from the Santa Ana River to the Santa Ana Mountains, with a length of more than 22 miles (35 km).[1][2][3][4]

The lands encompass present-day Santa Ana, Orange, Villa Park, Anaheim Hills, El Modena, Tustin, Costa Mesa, and a part of Irvine, which was formerly known as Rancho Lomas de Santiago and was titled to one of the Yorbas.

History

Californio ranchero, inherited Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana from his father, José Antonio Yorba
, who was granted the rancho in 1810.
Californio
vaquero, bought the rancho in 1854.

Juan Pablo Grijalva, a Spanish soldier who traveled to Alta California with the

Mexican Independence (1810–1821).[8]
The surrounding land grants or ranchos were granted by the Mexican government after Mexican independence in 1821.

The lands encroached upon the village of

Payómkawichum, and Serrano, that had been established long before the arrival of the Spanish. In 1832, the village people were massacred after a raid of American and Mexican fur trappers led by William Wolfskill.[9][10]

José Antonio Yorba built an elaborate adobe hacienda, El Refugio (the Refuge), located near present-day First and Sullivan Streets in western Santa Ana.

With the

Public Land Commission in 1852,[11][12] and the grant was patented to Bernardo, Teodoro and Ramón Yorba in 1883.[13]

In 1854, the Yorba family sold Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana to José Antonio Andrés Sepúlveda. Sepúlveda later lost the land due to bankruptcy caused by fighting to uphold his land claims in court. In 1869, William Spurgeon and Ward Bradford purchased 74.27 acres (0.3006 km2) of the ranch to form the city of Santa Ana. It became the seat of government for the County in 1889.

The ranch further disintegrated with purchases by

James Irvine, and James McFadden who built the McFadden Wharf in 1888. [14]

Present day

Modern use of the Santiago name

Historic sites of the Rancho

Modern development of the Rancho

Besides Santa Ana, other cities and unincorporated communities formed on the old Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana are

Santa Ana Heights, Orange, Costa Mesa, North Tustin, Tustin, and Olive
.

The Rancho Santiago Community College District is located in Santa Ana and is composed of Santa Ana College and Santiago Canyon College in Orange.

Notes

  1. ^ Diseño del Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana
  3. ^ Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Dominguez (1985), pg. 11.
  5. ^ Santa Ana Historic Timeline
  6. ^ Dávila, Amelia L., (1893)
  7. ^ Dominguez (1985), pg. 11
  8. ^ Beers, Henry Putney, (1979)
  9. S2CID 244551127
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  10. ^ Terry, Stephenson (1948). Shadows of Old Saddleback: From the Day of the Dons Down Through the Years when Pioneers Built Their Cabins Among the Oaks and Sycamores. Fine Arts Press. pp. 105–106.
  11. ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 346 SD
  12. ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
  13. ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ Pleasants, Adelene (1931)

References

  • Beers, Henry Putney, (1979). "Spanish & Mexican Records of the American Southwest : A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources", Tucson : University of Arizona Press
  • Davila, Amelia L., (1893). "Historic Yorba", Santa Ana Weekly Blade
  • Dominguez, Arnold O., (1985). "José Antonio Yorba I", 2nd Ed., Orange County Historical Society
  • Pleasants, Adelene (1931). "History of Orange County, California. Vol. 1", Los Angeles, CA : J. R. Finnell & Sons Publishing Company

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