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'''Rancho Santa Gertrudes''' was a {{convert|21298|acre|km2|sing=on}} 1834 [[Ranchos of California|Mexican land grant]], in present |
'''Rancho Santa Gertrudes''' was a {{convert|21298|acre|km2|sing=on}} 1834 [[Ranchos of California|Mexican land grant]], in present-day [[Los Angeles County, California]], resulting from a partition of [[Rancho Los Nietos]]. A former site of [[Nacaugna, California|Nacaugna]], the rancho lands included the present-day cities of [[Downey, California|Downey]] and [[Santa Fe Springs, California|Santa Fe Springs]].<ref>[http://digarc.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/search/CHS-13060 Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County]</ref><ref>{{gnis|id = 249069|name = Rancho Santa Gertrudes}}</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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Revision as of 13:59, 12 July 2015
Rancho Santa Gertrudes was a 21,298-acre (86.19 km2) 1834 Mexican land grant, in present-day Los Angeles County, California, resulting from a partition of Rancho Los Nietos. A former site of Nacaugna, the rancho lands included the present-day cities of Downey and Santa Fe Springs.[1][2]
History
At the request of Manuel Nieto heirs, governor José Figueroa in 1834, officially declared the 167,000-acre (680 km2) Rancho Los Nietos grant under Mexican rule and ordered its partition into five smaller ranchos: Las Bolsas, Los Alamitos, Los Cerritos, Los Coyotes, and Santa Gertrudes.[3]
Josefa Cota (widow of Antonio Maria Nieto, son of Manuel Nieto) received the Rancho Santa Gertrudes grant.[4] Lemuel Carpenter (1808–1859), who had married Maria de Los Angeles Dominguez, a niece of Josefa Cota, bought the rancho in 1843 from Josefa Cota, his aunt by marriage.[5]
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for part of Rancho Santa Gertrudes was filed Lemuel Carpenter with the Public Land Commission in 1852.[6][7] Carpenter, who was deeply in debt to John G. Downey, killed himself in 1859. In 1859 the rancho was sold at a sheriff's auction to John G. Downey and James P. McFarland. 17,602 acres (71.2 km2) of the grant was patented to McFarland and Downey in 1870.[8]
A claim for part of Rancho Santa Gertrudes was filed by Thomas Sanchez Colima with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[9][10] and 3,696 acres (15.0 km2) of the grant was patented to Thomas Sanchez Colima in 1877.[11]
Historic sites of the Rancho
- Hathaway Ranch Museum[12]
- Historical Railroad Exhibit
- Ranchos of California
- List of Ranchos of California
References
- ^ Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Santa Gertrudes
- ^ Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County
- ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
- ^ Lemuel Carpenter
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 194 SD
- ^ Plat of the Rancho Santa Gertrudes "Samuel" Carpenter, claimant
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
- ^ Diseño del Rancho Santa Gertrudes Tomas Sanchez Colima, claimant
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 272 SD
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
- ^ Hathaway Ranch Museum
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