Rancho San Lucas

Rancho San Lucas
Location: 13⁄4 mi. SW of jct. of Paris Valley Rd. and Rancho San Lucas entry rd., San Lucas, California
Area: 252 acres (102 ha)
Built: 1865
Architect: Trescony,Catherine
Architectural style: Transverse adobe barn
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 91000530[1]
Added to NRHP: May 06, 1991

Rancho San Lucas was a 8,875-acre (35.92 km2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present day Monterey County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Rafael Estrada.[2] The grant extended along the west bank of the Salinas River south of present day San Lucas.[3][4]

History

José Rafael Estrada, son of José Raymundo Estrada and Josefa Maria Vallejo de Alvarado, received the grant of the San Lucas for two square leagues in 1842. Rafael Estrada was a half brother of Governor Juan Alvarado.[5]

Estrada sold Rancho San Lucas to James McKinley. Captain James McKinley, a Scottish sailor, arrived at Monterey in the 1820s and became a successful trader. In 1843, he was involved in a trading business partnership with Captain John Paty and Henry D. Fitch. He served as an agent for both Thomas O. Larkin and his half brother, Captain John B.R. Cooper. McKinley married Carmen Amesti, daughter of José Amesti, who was the grantee of Rancho Los Corralitos. McKinley was also the patentee of Rancho Moro y Cayucos.

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 San Lucas was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,[6] and the grant was patented to James McKinley in 1882.[7]

McKinley sold the Rancho San Lucas in 1862 to Alberto Trescony. Alberto Trescony (1814–1892), born in Italy, drove sheep from Texas into Mexico, and came overland to Los Angeles in 1844, and went to Monterey shortly afterwards. A tin smith, he became wealthy manufacturing gold pans for the miners.

With the purchase of part of Rancho San Bernardo and all of Rancho San Benito, Alberto Trescony consolidated his San Lucas holdings into a ranch of about 20,000 acres (81 km2). Trescony also acquired Rancho Tularcitos. Drought in 1871–1872 killed large numbers of Trescony's sheep. In 1876, Trescony moved to Santa Cruz, and turned over the operation of the rancho to his son, Julius A. Trescony.[8]

Alberto Trescony died in 1892 and his property was distributed to his three children: a one-third interest to his son Julius A. Trescony; a one-third interest to his daughter, the wife of Robert F. Johnson of El Paso, Texas; and a one-third interest to the two minor children (Anita Christal and her brother Leo Christal) of his deceased daughter, wife of J.F. Christal.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  3. ^ Diseño del Rancho San Lucas
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho San Lucas
  5. ^ Hoover, Mildred B.; Hero & Ethel Rensch, and William N. Abeloe (1966). Historic Spots in California. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804744829. 
  6. ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 34 SD
  7. ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844–1886
  8. ^ Julius Trescony,1978,An Heir to a Land Grant, University of California, Davis, Oral History Center
  9. ^ Anita Christal Purdy vs Robert F. Johnson and Julius A. Trescony, 1917, California Decisions By California Supreme Court, Volume 53 The Recorder, San Francisco


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