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Rancho Los Nietos
Rancho Los Nietos was 300,000 acre land grant the first of its kind in California and among the largest. It was granted to Manuel Nieto 1734-1804 by governor Pedro Fages. Nieto was originally from Sinaloa and worked in the Presidio of San Diego.
The Rancho located in the Los Angeles Basin in between The Santa Ana and LA River. From the ocean all the way inland til about 12 miles from San Gabriel Mission located near present day Whittier.
Don Manuel Perez Nieto moved into the land once he retired Although we was retired he built a Adobe hut and tended to his animals and grew corn and wheat
The padres at Mission San Gabriel were not pleased to have Don Manuel using land that they wanted, and they protested. Don Manuel felt that he was being harassed by the padres, and he complained to the governor in Monterey. Though the Spanish governor generally did not favor the missions, in this case he sided with the padres. A portion of Nieto's rancho was taken in 1796 for the use of Mission San Gabriel.
After don Manuel’s death the Rancho was passed onto his 4 kids. In 1834 the rancho was divided into five smaller ranchos, each of which was granted to a member of the Nieto family. Rancho Las Bolsas, a grant of about 31,000 acres, was given to Catarina Ruiz, widow of Manuel Nieto. All the ranchos were as follows Los Alamitos, Las Bolsas, Los Cerritos, Los Coyotes, Santa Gertrudes, Palos Altos.
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Greetings Everyone. Im leaving this up here in case your wondering what this page is about. My goal here is to get up close and personal about a piece of our history that’s forgotten or left out of our history books for whatever reason. It is also to shine light to the many characters, archetypes, styles and trends of California’s Hispanic population past and present. Hope you enjoy this content.
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La Misión de San Luis, Rey de Francia (The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France). It was named for King Louis IX of France. Located in Oceanside CA. It was founded by padre Fermín Lasuén on June 12, 1798, the eighteenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions built in the Alta California.
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Rancho San Pablo was a 17,939-acre land grant in present-day Contra Costa County. Granted to Francisco Maria Castro in 1823 former soldier at the Presidio of San Francisco and one time Alcalde of Pueblo San Jose. It was granted by the Alta California Governor.
Francisco Maria Castro moved in with his wife Gabriéla Berryessa de Castro after living in Pueblo San José. Together they had 15 kids. Following his death in 1831 title of the land was passed to his son Victor Ramon Castro. In 1842 Francisco Castro's sons, Jesús María Castro, built a home. This structure stands today and is known as the Adobe Alvarado historical landmark on the corner of San Pablo Ave & Church Ln in San Pablo Ca. The Governor of Mexican Alta California, Juan Alvarado, married one of the Castro daughters in 1839 and lived on the property. The Castro family were cattle ranchers and made money selling cow hides. They had help from the Indians who were previously trained by the missions to be cowboys. These Indians managed the cattle on the land since the mission days.
After the Mexican American war a claim for Rancho San Pablo was filed with the Public Land Commission by Joaquín Ysidro Castro in 1852 and the grant was patented to Joaquín Ysidro Castro in 1878. During this time the family due to its large number of descendants attempted to divide the land in 24 pieces. But the holders of the 1/24th interest, who had not signed, were not satisfied and refused to accept the lands allotted to them, so the 23/24th interests went to court to force the 1/24ths interests to take what was given them. But without success-the Court holding that an out of court partition could not be forced upon landholders who did not agree to it. As a result, this partition was thrown out, and later on a court proceeding was brought to compel a partition and eventually this very valuable land was divided up between its many owners. This is last that’s known of the lands and it’s owners. After this up of the city of Richmond on August 7, 1905 I could not find anymore information on the land and the Castro Family.
The pictures feature Francisco and his wife Gabriela and their son Victor Castro young/old.
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I was at Chicano park the other day looking at all the murals inspired by the the cultural/political/Intellectual movement known as the Chicano Movement and then thinking about how its predecessor the LatinX woke movement is absent of the themes that you see in these murals. Symbols rooted in Mexican/Chicano nationalism, religious symbolism, La Reconquista, workers rights, Mexican revolutionary figures. Not only are many of these symbols absent in the new woke left but sometimes completely disavowed “canceled” these concepts. I was never was a “Chicano type” and I never felt for the movement but seeing the contrast of this new intellectual movement vs the old 70s Chicano movement I now have a newfound appreciation the movement that once was.
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There exists something known in Spanish as “La Leyenda Negra” or the “Black Myth”. Which is the notion that the most honorable Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II or Aragon and Isabella I of Castile along with their successors knowingly tolerated and encouraged the violence which took place in the pacification process of the Americas, primarily in Mexico, Cuba and Peru. This can be disproven in an untold number of ways as I plan to do so in the future, but one fact alone can disprove it entirely which I will now elaborate on. In the Conquista of the Americas, men like Christoper Columbus, Hernan Cortez, Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Velasquez all were in charge of holding and pacifying certain areas of the new empire. In doing so they were given total authority under the condition that any action which took place would bring honor to the crown and be directed towards conversion of the indigenous populations. As we know there was a significant amount of warfare that took place as-well as the plundering of gold and other trinkets, which of course is in direct contrast to the conditions and goals of the pacification. It is here that the Black myth is created, but at the same time is where it dies, because throughout these campaigns dozens of letters were exchanged between the Conquistadors and the Monarchs, if they truly supported this violence, no effort would’ve been made on the part of men like Hernan Cortez and Christopher Columbus to explicitly omit and falsify certain events which took a place. The direct contrast between journals held by Cortez and Columbus and the letters sent back is concrete proof that any misdeeds carried out by Spanish forces were done so without approval of the higher ups and where intentionally misled. While this may be a very simple counter to the Black Myth, it is only one of hundreds that cut through the fog of lies and propaganda that surrounds the Spanish Conquista of the Americas.
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