Rancho La Tajauta

Rancho Tajauta was a 3,560-acre (14.4 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Anastasio Avila.[1] The grant was named for the Gabrielino/Tongva place name of Tajáuta. The grant encompassed present-day Willowbrook and Watts.[2]

History

Anastasio Avila, one of the sons of Cornelio Avila, was alcalde of Los Angeles in 1819 – 1821, and granted one square league in 1843.

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 La Tajauta was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[3] and the grant was patented to Anastasio's son Enrique Avila in 1873.[4] Rancho Tajauta was surveyed in 1858 by Henry Hancock, deputy United States surveyor, and the survey approved in 1860.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  2. ↑ Diseño del Rancho Tajauta
  3. ↑ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 167 SD
  4. ↑ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
  5. ↑ William Maxwell Evarts, 1869, In the matter of the survey of the Rancho "Tajauta " California

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Coordinates: 33°55′48″N 118°15′00″W / 33.930°N 118.250°W / 33.930; -118.250

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