Rancho Cañada de los Pinos or College Rancho was a
Mexican land grant in present-day
Santa Barbara County, California
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. The grant extended along the north bank of the
Santa Ynez River opposite
Rancho Lomas de la Purificacion and encompassed
Mission Santa Inés and present-day
Santa Ynez, in the
Santa Ynez Valley.
History
The six square league Rancho Canada de los Pinos or College Rancho was given to the Seminary of Santa Inez, and remained in the hands of the Catholic Church after the secularization of the missions.
With the
cession of California to the United States following the
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War (Spanish language, Spanish: ''guerra de Estados Unidos-México, guerra mexicano-estadounidense''), also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, ...
, the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. In 1853
Archbishop
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Joseph Sadoc Alemany filed petitions for the return of all former mission lands in the state. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Cañada de los Pinos was filed with the
Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was
patented to Bishop J. S. Alemany in 1861.
Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
See also
* Ranchos of California
* List of Ranchos of California
* California Rangeland Trust
References
External links
Ranchos of Santa Barbara County Map
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Ranchos of Santa Barbara County, California