Rancho Laguna (Alemany)
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Rancho Laguna part of the grazing lands granted to
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa ( es, Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa) is a Spanish mission founded September 1, 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in San Luis Obispo, California. Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the m ...
in 1844, surrounding Laguna Lake at the head of the
Los Osos Valley The Los Osos Valley is a valley within San Luis Obispo County, in the Central Coast of California region. Geography Los Osos Valley lies between southern San Luis Obispo and Baywood-Los Osos. The town of Los Osos is in the valley. The Irish ...
in the city of
San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (; Spanish for " St. Louis the Bishop", ; Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfwa ...
and
San Luis Obispo County, California San Luis Obispo County (), officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a County (United States), county on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 282, ...
. With
Rancho Cañada de los Pinos Rancho Cañada de los Pinos or College Rancho was a Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California. The grant extended along the north bank of the Santa Ynez River opposite Rancho Lomas de la Purificacion and encompassed Mi ...
Rancho Laguna was one of the two ranchos returned to the
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. It was returned in 1859, after its confiscation in 1845. Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco.
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History

Rancho Laguna was part of the grazing lands granted to the
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa ( es, Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa) is a Spanish mission founded September 1, 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in San Luis Obispo, California. Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the m ...
, founded in 1772 by Father
Junípero Serra Junípero Serra y Ferrer (; ; ca, Juníper Serra i Ferrer; November 24, 1713August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order , image = FrancescoCoA PioM.svg , image_size ...
in
San Luis Obispo County, California San Luis Obispo County (), officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a County (United States), county on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 282, ...
. These lands were lost to the
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due to the
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. With the Secularization act of 1833, the mission pasture and garden lands were sold or granted to Mexican citizens as ranchos over the next thirteen years. On 16 July, 1844, Governor Micheltorena granted to Bishop
Francisco García Diego y Moreno Francisco García Diego y Moreno, OFM, (17 September 1785 – 30 April 1846) was the first bishop of the Diocese of the Californias. Early episcopal appointments In 1801, he received the habit of Francis at the missionary College of Guadalup ...
the Mission San Luis Obispo a vineyard, garden and a square league of grazing land around the Laguna for the support of worship. In 1845, the buildings of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa except for the chapel were sold by Governor
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to John Wilson, everything except the church chapel was sold for a total of $510 (valued at $70,000 in 1845). The Rancho Laguna was also ceded by Pio Pico to Wilson in 1845, under protest by the bishop in September 1845. On February 19, 1853
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J.S. Alemany filed petitions for the return of all former mission lands in the state. These cases, 609, 425, N. D., and 388 S. D., for the California Missions and other land was confirmed by the Commission on December 18, 1855. An appeal was dismissed in Northern District Court, on March 16, 1857, and in the Southern District on March 15, 1858. Consequently, the 4,157.02 acres of Rancho Laguna was patented to Bishop J. S. Alemany on February 4, 1859. After reading a letter from Bishop Alemany, President
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signed a proclamation on March 18, 1865, just three weeks before Lincoln's assassination, that restored ownership of some the mission property to the
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. Ownership of (essentially the exact area of land occupied by the original mission buildings, cemeteries, and gardens) was subsequently conveyed to the Church. Included with the Mission San Luis Obispo were the mission orchard and vineyard, and the land of the Rancho La Laguna, southwest of the town, in
San Luis Obispo County San Luis Obispo County (), officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county on the Central Coast of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 282,424. The county seat is San Luis Obispo. Junípero Serra founded the Mission ...
, consisting of . The Rancho Laguna was a diamond shaped section of land of surrounding Laguna Lake at the head of the
Los Osos Valley The Los Osos Valley is a valley within San Luis Obispo County, in the Central Coast of California region. Geography Los Osos Valley lies between southern San Luis Obispo and Baywood-Los Osos. The town of Los Osos is in the valley. The Irish ...
. It was bounded by a line through the
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on the southwest, a line bordering that of the Rancho Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islay on the northwest, a line running along the south slope of the Cerro San Luis Obispo to a point at the intersection of Elks Lane and Huigera Street on the northeast, and a line on the southeast to the starting point just south of the common boundary with the Ranchito de Santa Fe. The Rancho was subsequently owned by W. H. Peterson and others up to 1883.


Today

Most of the lands of the Rancho Laguna and all of the Laguna Lake are enclosed within the boundary of the City of
San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (; Spanish for " St. Louis the Bishop", ; Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfwa ...
, some parts of the land in the Irish Hills and to the east and northwest of the lake toward Bishop Peak are outside the city limits. Laguna Lake Park occupies the easternmost northeast shore of Laguna Lake. With Laguna Lake Park, the Laguna Lake Natural Reserve encloses the most of the shoreline of the lake and the lower reach of Prefumo Creek and its delta on the shore of the lake (following its diversion into the late 1950s), omitting only the northernmost area, called the Northwest Inlets. The reserve also encloses a strip of grasslands to the northeast of the lake to near the crest of the serpentine rock ridgeline.2014 – Laguna Lake Natural Reserve Conservation Plan
from slocity.org accessed October 29, 2018.


References

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