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Rancho San Rafael was a land grant bordering the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco, given in 1784 to Jose Maria Verdugo, a Spanish soldier who had served with the Portola-Serra Expedition.
oral José María Verdugo received a provisional grant of the Rancho San Rafael in 1784, from his army commander Governor Pedro Fages. In 1798 Verdugo retired from the army to become a full-time rancher, and title was established.
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Rancho San Rafael was a land grant bordering the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco, given in 1784 to Jose Maria Verdugo, a Spanish soldier who had served with the Portola-Serra Expedition.
History
Land grant
Corporal José María Verdugo received a provisional grant of the Rancho San Rafael in 1784, from his army commander Governor Pedro Fages. In 1798 Verdugo retired from the army to become a full-time rancher, and title was established. Verdugo died in 1831 and he left his property to his son Julio Verdugo and daughter Catalina Verdugo.
After California became a state in 1850, Spanish and Mexican landowners were required to validate their land claims. Julio and Catalina Verdugo were officially granted title to the rancho by the Board of Land Commissioners in 1855. In 1861 they split the rancho between southern and northern portions.
Great Partition of 1871
By the late 1860s, several parcels of Rancho San Rafael were either sold, or lost due to foreclosures. Many individuals were claiming ownership to multiple sections of the rancho. In 1871, law partners Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell, filed a lawsuit, known as "The Great Partition", against thirty-six separate defendants. The plaintiffs contended that there were numerous alleged property owners occupying tracts of land whose boundaries were illegally established. Once the validity of the claims were proven, a partition was demanded. Ultimately, Rancho San Rafael was divided into thirty-one sections given to twenty-eight different people, some of which included members of the Verdugo family.
Among the Verdugos receiving substantial apportionment of the land were: Catalina and Teodoro Verdugo, 3,300 acres; Rafaela Verdugo de Sepulveda, 909 acres; and Maria Sepulveda de Sanchez, 100 acres. Other Verdugos received significantly smaller sections. Other claimants sharing the partition included: Benjamin Dreyfus, 8,000 acres; David Burbank, 4,607 acres; Prudent Beaudry, 1,702 acres; Captain C. E. Thom, 724 acres; and Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell shared 5,745 acres.
Historic sites of the Rancho
- Casa Adobe De San Rafael - 1865 Tomás Sánchez of the hacienda type adobe.
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