Rancho Tomales y Baulines

Rancho Tomales y Baulines was a 9,468-acre (38.32 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Marin County, California, given in 1836 by Governor Nicolás Gutiérrez to Rafael Garcia.[1] The grant extended south from Point Reyes Station along the Olema Valley and encompassed present day Olema and Garcia.[2][3][4]

History

Rafael Garcia (1799-1866) married Maria Loreto Altamirano in 1827. Garcia was a corporal stationed at Mission San Rafael and was the first settler to occupy the area around Bolinas Lagoon in 1834. To allow his brother-in-law, Gregorio Briones, to have Rancho Las Baulines, Garcia moved north up the Olema Valley to Olema, and was granted the two square league Rancho Tomales y Baulines in 1836. Garcia gained "juridical possession" of this land from the authorities in Sonoma.[5] In 1843, Garcia moved his livestock onto neighboring James Berry's Rancho Punta de los Reyes.[6][7] His widow, Loretta, was murdered in Olema in 1873.

With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Tomales y Baulines was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[8] and the grant was patented to Rafael Garcia in 1883.[9]

See also

References
  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 Tomales y Baulines
  3. Map of Marin County Ranchos Archived 2008-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Original Mexican Land Grants in Marin County Archived 2003-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Livingston, Dewey (1995). A Good Life: Dairy Farming in the Olema Valley. San Francisco: National Park Service. p. 419.
  6. Dairy and Beef Ranches on the Point Reyes Peninsula 1834-1945 D.S. Livingston, National Park Service
  7. Robert H. Becker, "Historical Survey of Point Reyes," Land Use Survey. Proposed Point Reyes National Seashore (San Francisco: Region Four Office, National Park Service, February, 1961)
  8. United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 68 ND
  9. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine

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