Rancho Santa Rita

Rancho Santa Rita was a 8,894-acre (35.99 km2) Mexican land grant in the Amador Valley and western Livermore Valley, which is in present day Alameda County, California.

It was given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Jose Dolores Pacheco.[1]

The rancho included present day Pleasanton, Asco, and Dougherty.[2][3][4]

  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 Santa Rita
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Santa Rita
  4. ^ Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (5 April 2011). San Francisco in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City by the Bay. University of California Press. pp. 429–. ISBN 978-0-520-94887-7.