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Rancho San Pedro was one of the first California land grants, and the first to win a patent from the United States. The land grant was validated by the Mexican government at in 1828, and a US patent validating was issued in 1858.
lass="link1" onMouseover='showByLink("m735476",this)' onMouseout='hide("m735476")'href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Manuel_Dominguez">Juan Jose Dominguez (1736 - 1809), a Spanish soldier, arrived in San Diego, California in 1769 with Fernando Rivera y Moncada and served with the Gaspar de Portolà expedition, and along with Juniperro Serra, traveled to San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel and Monterey.
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Rancho San Pedro was one of the first California land grants, and the first to win a patent from the United States. The land grant was validated by the Mexican government at in 1828, and a US patent validating was issued in 1858.
Early history
Spanish grant
Juan Jose Dominguez (1736 - 1809), a Spanish soldier, arrived in San Diego, California in 1769 with Fernando Rivera y Moncada and served with the Gaspar de Portolà expedition, and along with Juniperro Serra, traveled to San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel and Monterey. In 1784, Juan Jose was granted seventeen Spanish leagues from the Spanish Empire, signed by King Carlos III.
Mexican grant
Juan Jose’s original grazing permission stretched from present-day Compton to the Palos Verdes Peninsula, but did not become a title to land until it was “re-granted” to Juan Jose’s nephew and heir, Cristobal Dominguez in 1822. Cristobal died soon afterward, but his three sons settled on the ranch, building adobe homes. The following year Manuel Dominguez, eldest son of Cristobal Dominguez, married Engracia Cota and commenced a successful career raising cattle and serving in a variety of elected and appointed offices in Los Angeles.
Rancho de los Palos Verdes
The portion of the Rancho San Pedro land grant known as Rancho de los Palos Verdes, that later became the cities of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, as well as portions of Torrance and San Pedro, was contested for many years between the Dominguez and Sepulveda families through various appeals to Spanish Governors and law suits from 1817 - 1882, and was eventually partitioned into seventeen parcels in 1882.
Battle of Dominguez Rancho
In 1846 during the Mexican-American war, the Battle of Dominguez Rancho was fought on the rancho site.
U.S. land patent
Upon the settlement of the Mexican-American war and the annexation of California by the United States in 1848, a patent was granted to Manuel Dominguez and signed by President James Buchanan on December 18, 1858, more than 7 years after it was first requested and nearly 75 years after the original Spanish land grant. This was the first U.S. land patent granted in California. However, throughout the years of political turmoil in California, prolonged court battles over ownership of the Rancho, numerous surveys of the land, and the sale of some parcels, the United States land patent stated that Rancho San Pedro now encompassed , far fewer than the included in the original land grant.
Modern development of the Rancho
The original Spanish land grant included what today consists of the Pacific coast cities of Los Angeles harbor, San Pedro, the Palos Verdes peninsula, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Manhattan Beach, and east to the Los Angeles River including; the cities of Lomita, Gardena, Harbor City, Wilmington, Carson, Compton, and western portions of Long Beach and Paramount.
Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum
The adobe of Manuel Dominguez, completed in 1826, is a national historic site. The Friends of Rancho San Pedro operate the adobe ranch home as the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum. The home features two-foot thick walls, heavy timbers and a flat, tarred roof. Much of the furniture is original to the Dominguez family. The Friends provide guided tours of the house, as well as host many educational programs about ranch life and early California history. The museum's address is 18127 South Alameda Street, Rancho Dominguez, California.
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