Rancho Santa Gertrudes
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. 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.
Josefa Cota (widow of Antonio Maria Nieto, son of Manuel Nieto) received the Rancho Santa Gertrudes grant.[3] Lemuel Carpenter, who had married Maria de Los Angeles Dominguez, a niece of Josefa Cota, bought the rancho in 1843 from his aunt by marriage.[4] In 1859 the rancho was sold at a sheriff's auction to John G. Downey and James P. McFarland.
McFarland and Downey received a US patent for 17,602 acres (71.2 km2) in 1870.[5][6][7] Thomas Sanchez Colima received a US patent for 3,696 acres (15.0 km2) in 1870.[8][9]
Historic sites of the Rancho
- Hathaway Ranch Museum[10]
- Historical Railroad Exhibit
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
- ^ Lemuel Carpenter
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 194 SD
- ^ Plat of the Rancho Santa Gertrudes, showing "Samuel" Carpenter as the confirmee in 1862.
- ^ Diseño del Rancho Santa Gertrudes, Tomas Sanchez Colima, claimant
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 272 SD
- ^ Hathaway Ranch Museum