Rancho La Goleta was a

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in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1846 by Governor

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to Daniel A. Hill. The grant extended along the Pacific coast from today’s Fairview Avenue in present-day

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, east to

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. The grant was adjacent to

Rancho Dos Pueblos Rancho Dos Pueblos was a Mexican land grant in present day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Nicolas A. Den. The rancho stretched along the Pacific coast to the northwest of today's city of Santa Barbar ...

granted to his son-in-law Nicolas A. Den in 1842.

History

The one square league grant was made to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1846. With the

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of California to the United States following the

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, the 1848

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provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Goleta was filed with the

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in 1852, and the grant was

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to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1865. The

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began in 1848, making Hill wealthy from the sale of beef to miners in the gold fields. Daniel Hill first sold of Rancho La Goleta to his son-in-law, T. Wallace More, in 1856, and an additional in 1864. The deaths of Den in 1862 and Hill in 1865, and the droughts of 1863 and 1864, led to the first subdivisions of the rancho.

Daniel A. Hill

Daniel A. Hill (1797–1865), of

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, came to California from

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in 1823, and settled in Santa Barbara, and married Rafaela Sabina Luisa Ortega (1809–1879) in 1826. She was the granddaughter of

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, grantee of

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. Hill was a man of varied accomplishments—carpenter, stonemason, soap-maker, and farmer. He engaged in merchandising, and also acted as a superintendent for the padres in some of their farming and building operations. He built several houses, including the 1825 Hill-Carrillo Adobe, now listed the

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. He was the grantee of Rancho La Goleta, where he died in 1865. His daughter Rosa A. Hill married Nicholas A. Den; daughter Josefa G. Hill married

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; daughter Susana Hill married T. Wallace More; and daughter Maria Antonia married H. O'Neill; and his son Ramon J. Hill was a state senator.Mason, Jesse D., 1961, Reproduction of Thompson and West's, ''History of Santa Barbara & Ventura Counties California'', Howell North Books, Berkeley, California, Pages 45-47

References

External links

Ranchos of Santa Barbara County Map
{{California history, state=collapsed Goleta, La Goleta, La Goleta, California La Goleta

History

Daniel A. Hill

See also

References

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