Rancho Santa Rosa (Cota)
Rancho Santa Rosa was a 15,526-acre (62.83 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Barbara County, California one and half square leagues given in 1839 by Governor Pro-tem Manuel Jimeno, and two additional square leagues given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Francisco Cota.[1] The grant in the Santa Ynez Valley extended along both banks of the Santa Ynez River at Santa Rosa Creek, west of present day Buellton.[2][3]
History[edit]
Francisco Atanasio Cota (1787–1851) was a soldier at the Presidio of Santa Barbara. In 1811, he married María de Jesus Olivera (1791–1877). He was administrator at Mission Santa Inés 1837-1841.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Santa Rosa was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[4][5] and the grant was patented to María Jesús Olivera de Cota in 1872.[6]
Joseph W. Cooper[7] bought Rancho Santa Rosa in 1868.[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
- ^ Diseño del Rancho Santa Rosa
- ^ Santa Barbara County Rancho Map
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 294 SD
- ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Frank Sands, 1893 ,A pastoral prince: the history and reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, Santa Barbara
- ^ Hoover, Mildred B.; Rensch, Hero; Rensch, Ethel; Abeloe, William N. (1966). Historic Spots in California. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9.