Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica
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Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica was a 33,000-acre (130 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California given by governor Juan Alvarado in 1839 to Francisco Sepulveda soldier and citizen of Los Angeles. The rancho included what are now Santa Monica, Brentwood, Mandeville Canyon, and parts of West Los Angeles.[1][2]
[edit] History
In 1839, Governor Alvarado, gave possession to Francisco Sepulveda of the lands known as San Vicente, with a piece of pasture (potrero) named Santa Monica. But the boundaries of the lands were not well defined and there was soon a dispute as to the territory included.[3] In 1839 Marquez and Reyes had received the grant to Rancho Boca de Santa Monica which also included the "potrero" of Santa Monica. In 1840 Francisco Sepulveda petitioned governor Alvarado to place him in "...pacific possession of the property, as Francisco Marquez and Ysidro Reyes have given a bad example of disobedience and that under the strength of discordant documents they remain in possession of the place called Santa Monica".[4] The dispute over the boundaries continued and was not settled until the question came into the United States courts.[5] After long litigation, the Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica grant was finally patented in 1881 to the Sepulveda heirs at 30,260 acres (122 km2).[6]
In 1872, the Sepulveda's sold their Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica property to Robert S. Baker. Baker sold a three quarter interest in the land to the Comstock millionaire John Percival Jones in 1874.
[edit] Historic sites of the Rancho
- Sepulveda Adobe home of Dolores Sepulveda. Delores was one of the sons of Francisco Sepulveda. The building no longer exists.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ 1900 USGS topographic map
- ^ Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County
- ^ Diseño del Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica
- ^ Ingersoll, Luther A (2008). Ingersoll's Century History, Santa Monica Bay Cities - Prefaced with a Brief History of the State of California, a Condensed History of Los Angeles County, 1542-1908; Supplemented with an Encyclopedia of Local Biography. ISBN 9781408623671.
- ^ Larrabee, Charles Hathaway (1870). Objections to the survey of the Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica as made by Geo. H. Thompson, deputy U.S. surveyor, in June and July, 1868. Turnbull & Smith, Law Printers.
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
- ^ Exterior view of the Casa de Don Dolores Sepulveda in disrepair, taken from the rear, ca.1933
- Basten, Fred E. (1974). Santa Monica Bay: The First 100 Years, A pictorial history of Santa Monica, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu. Douglas-West, Los Angeles, CA.
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