Rancho Atascadero
{{Short description|Mexican land grant in California}}
Rancho Atascadero was a {{convert|4348|acre|km2|sing=on}} Mexican land grant in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California.
It was granted in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Trifon Garcia.Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco The grant extended along the Salinas River and encompassed present-day Atascadero.[http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6199n9n2/?&brand=oac Diseño del Rancho Atascadero]{{gnis| id = 269608| name = Rancho Atascadero}}
History
The one square league grant was from the secularized holdings of Mission San Miguel Arcángel. Trifon Garcia was a son of Ynocente Garcia, who was administrator at Mission San Miguel.{{cite book |last=Hoover |first=Mildred B. |last2=Rensch |first2=Hero |last3=Rensch |first3=Ethel |last4=Abeloe |first4=William N. |title=Historic Spots in California |year=1966 |publisher=Stanford University Press | url=https://archive.org/details/historicspotsinc00rens|url-access=registration |isbn=978-0-8047-4482-9}}
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 Rancho Atascadero was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/265854 United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 113 SD][http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/hb109nb422/ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892] and the grant was patented to Henry Haight in 1860.[http://www.slc.ca.gov/Misc_Pages/Historical/Surveyors_General/reports/Willey_1884_1886.pdf Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320000647/http://www.slc.ca.gov/Misc_Pages/Historical/Surveyors_General/reports/Willey_1884_1886.pdf |date=2013-03-20 }}
A second claim was filed by Maria Antonia Ortega in 1853, but was rejected by the Commission due to lack of evidence of a grant.[http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/267612 United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 271 SD]
The rancho was sold in 1864 to Martin Murphy Jr. (1807–1884) and his wife Mary Bulger Murphy (d.1892) of Sunnyvale, who had come to California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844.J. P. Munro-Fraser, 1881, History of Santa Clara County, California, Alley, Bowen & Co, San Francisco{{Cite web |url=http://ca-files.biofiles.us/SClara.1881-791-798.pdf# |title=Biography of Martin Murphy, Jr. |access-date=2010-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725182947/http://ca-files.biofiles.us/SClara.1881-791-798.pdf# |archive-date=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead }} The Murphys turned over running of the rancho to their son Patrick Murphy, who was a General in the California National Guard.Thompson & West , 1883, History of San Luis Obispo County California, Oakland
[http://files.usgwarchives.org/ca/sanluisobispo/bios/murphy991nbs.txt Patrick Washington Murphy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816085011/http://files.usgwarchives.org/ca/sanluisobispo/bios/murphy991nbs.txt |date=2011-08-16 }} Patrick Washington Murphy (1840–1901) operated Rancho Atascadero, and the adjacent Rancho Asuncion, and Rancho Santa Margarita, altogether comprising about {{convert|61000|acre|km2|0}}, from his Rancho Santa Margarita headquarters.
In 1912, Edward Gardner Lewis, a successful magazine publisher, bought Rancho Atascadero from J.H. Henry. Lewis founded the utopian, planned community of Atascadero in 1913.{{Cite web|url=https://colonymagazine.com/tent-city/the-atascadero-plan-development-part-i/|title=The Atascadero Plan & Development Part I|date=2019-05-03|website=Colony Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-04}}
See also
- {{C|Ranchos of San Luis Obispo County, California}}
- List of Ranchos of California
References
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