Rancho Paguai, named by the Mexicans after a local
Kumeyaay
The Kumeyaay, also known as Tipai-Ipai or by their historical Spanish name Diegueño, is a tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the Unit ...
village, was located in what is now the valley of
Poway Creek and
Poway Valley. It was a Mexican land grant rancho, granted by Governor
Juan Alvarado on September 7, 1839, and confirmed May 22, 1840, to
Rosario E. Aguilar Rosario E. Aguilar (ca. 1792 – 1847) was an early settler of San Diego, California.
Life
Aguilar was born around 1792 in Spain.
He was corporal of the mission guard at San Diego, and had a house on site of the present town, in 1821.
In 1827 ...
a former Corporal of the
San Diego Mission guard and the Majordomo of the Mission in 1838. However, Aguilar did not occupy or improve it and so forfeited the grant. He, having received an appointment as
Juez de paz in 1841, afterward moved to
San Juan Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano (Spanish for "St. John of Capistrano") is a city in Orange County, California, located along the Orange Coast. The population was 34,593 at the 2010 census.
San Juan Capistrano was founded by the Spanish in 1776, when St. ...
and took up land there. Details on the extent of the rancho are unknown.
William Ellsworth Smythe, San Diego and Imperial counties, California: a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement, Volume 1, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1913, p.401
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The city of Poway, California
Poway () is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. The unincorporated community became a city on December 1, 1980. Poway's rural roots influenced its motto "The City in the Country". The city has a population of 49,701 as of 2 ...
later developed on the land of this rancho that never came to fruition.
References
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Paguai
Poway, California
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