Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe is an

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home built in 1818. It is located at the

Rancho de los Palos Verdes ''Rancho de los Palos Verdes'' was a Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to José Loreto and Juan Capistrano Sepulveda. The name means "Ranch of the Green Trees". The grant encomp ...

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. The Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe was designated a

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(No. 383) on Jan. 03, 1944. The Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe was built by José Dolores Sepúlveda de Redondo, his son was

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from 1837 to 1848. José Dolores Sepúlveda's father was José Loreto Sepúlveda (1764–1808). The location is now a private residence in Torrance. The original Adobe is gone, but the current homeowner renovated the house to reflect the Rancho history. Rancho de los Palos Verdes means "range of green trees". The Rancho is now the present-day cities of the

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Peninsula, as well as portions of San Pedro and Torrance. José Dolores Sepúlveda (March 23, 1793–1824) was one of the sons of Juan José Sepúlveda (1764–1808). In 1784, the

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deeded

Rancho San Pedro Rancho San Pedro was one of the first California land grants and the first to win a patent from the United States. The Spanish Crown granted the of land to soldier Juan José Domínguez in 1784, with his descendants validating their legal clai ...

, a tract of over , to soldier Juan José Domínguez. Domínguez died in 1809, and in 1810 the executor of his will, Manuel Gutiérrez, granted permission to then 17-year-old Sepúlveda to herd livestock in the southwestern reaches of Rancho San Pedro. This eventually became the basis for the Sepúlveda family's contested claim to the Rancho de los Palos Verdes, carved out of Rancho San Pedro lands. Dolores went to

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to settle his land title, but on his return trip in 1824 he was killed in the Chumash revolt at

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. In 1834, Governor

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made a judicial decree intended to settle the dispute between the Domínguez and Sepúlveda families, awarding the Rancho de los Palos Verdes to Juan Capistrano Sepúlveda and José Loreto Sepúlveda. José Dolores Sepúlveda married María Ignacia Marcia Ávila (1793 - ?) on November 8, 1813, at

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State maker reads: *''NO. 383 SITE OF ADOBE HOME OF JOSÉ DOLORES SEPULVEDA - This adobe was built in 1818. Dolores had trouble getting his land title cleared, so he took a trip to Monterey to get the matter definitely settled and, on his return trip, he was shot with an arrow by a hostile Indian at Mission La Purísima Concepción.''

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