Rancho Santa Margarita

This article is about the land grant. For the city, see Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

Rancho Santa Margarita was a 17,735-acre (71.77 km2) Mexican land grant in the Santa Lucia Mountains, in present day San Luis Obispo County, central California.

The rancho was granted by Governor pro tem Manuel Jimeno Casarin in 1841 to Joaquín Estrada.[1] The grant encompassed present day Santa Margarita.[2][3] It remains an active ranch.

  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 Margarita
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Santa Margarita