Carson’s father was Don Manuel Dominguez, a wealthy sheep raiser, who inherited the Rancho San Pedro of 24,000 acres from his father, Don Christobal Dominguez, a commissioner of Spain, who had inherited it from his uncle, Don Juan Jose Dominguez, to whom the property had been granted by the Spanish throne. Carson on the far left, at the Dominguez adobe. Carson standing on the far right, and Mrs. 380 (Click HERE to see complete listing).*^* The site of Diego Sepulveda's home was designated California Historical Landmark No. This adobe home, built by Diego Sepúlveda in the 1850s, was the first two-story Monterey-type adobe built in Southern California. It wasn’t long before the energetic young Anglo saw visions of fleets of wagons and an international port. At the time the port consisted of just a shack and rickety pier owned by the Sepulveda family, wealthy Californios who also operated a primitive stage coach line to the pueblo, 20 miles away. In 1851, the 21-yr old Phineas Banning, arrived in the tiny port of San Pedro.

Location: 700 block of Channel St, San Pedro. (n.d.)* - Exterior view of a two-story adobe home of Don Diego Sepulveda, erected in 1853. The Sepulveda family was awarded 31,629 acres 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.*^ 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.įor many years, a portion of the Rancho San Pedro land grant was contested between the Dominguez and Sepulveda families through various appeals to Spanish Governors and law suits from 1817–1883, and was eventually partitioned into seventeen parcels in 1882. Cristobal died soon afterward, but his three sons settled on the ranch, building adobe homes. In 1784, Dominguez was granted a concession of seventeen Spanish leagues or 75,000 acres from the Spanish Empire.ĭominguez'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' in 1822 in the Mexican era to Juan Jose's nephew and heir, Cristobal 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 Junípero Serra, traveled to San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel and Monterey. In the lower center can be seen Rancho San Pedro sitting between Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Palos Verdes. (1919) ^^ - Map showing the old Spanish and Mexican ranchos of Los Angeles County. Santa Catalina Island, named after Catherine of Alexandria, was claimed for the Spanish Empire the next day, on her feast day, November 25.*^ His feast day is November 24 on the local ecclesiastical calendar of Spain, the day on which Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered the bay in 1542 which would be known as San Pedro. Peter of Alexandria, a Fourth Century bishop in Alexandria, Egypt. Visiting ships had two choices: stay far out at anchor and have their goods and passengers ferried to shore or beach themselves. The south-facing San Pedro Bay was originally a shallow mudflat, too soft to support a wharf.

In 1542, Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo discovered the 'Bay of Smokes'. The old landmark, Deadman's Island is in the background (it was removed in the 1920s to expand the harbor). Enjoy early Californian music and dancers, real rancho food and make it yourself crafts and demonstrations.Ī new interpretive center honoring the first periods of California history was completed in October 2019.(1850)* - View of what is now the San Pedro Harbor in a 1850 daguerreotype (silver copper plate process photo). It is the second oldest structure still standing in San Mateo County.Įvery third Saturday in September, Rancho Day Fiesta celebrates Mexican California during the Rancho Day Fiesta. During the first century of its origin, the Adobe served as a bordello, hunting lodge, artichoke packing shed, farm laborers’ quarters and a speakeasy during the prohibition era. Constructed from timbers salvaged from a wrecked Spanish ship found on Point San Pedro, Sanchez Adobe’s authentic Monterey architecture is heavily influenced by Spanish design coupled with relics of the Ohlone Indians and Spanish artifacts. Sanchez Adobe is a living history site that was occupied from prehistoric Indian times until it became a historic landmark in 1953. Don Francisco Sanchez, owner of Rancho San Pedro, built the Sanchez Adobe between 1842-1846.

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