The Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California was named after the President in 1971.

The Matra design was originally intended to be sold as a Talbot and be a replacement for the Talbot-Matra Rancho.

Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.

European settlement of the area began when Manuel Nieto was granted the land for Rancho Los Nietos, which encompassed over, including present-day Fountain Valley.

It passed Congress on August 4, 1981 and was signed into law on August 13, 1981 by President Ronald Reagan at Rancho del Cielo, his California ranch.

They met on the film shoot of Rancho Deluxe, which was filmed on a ranch where Geston was working as a maid.

The first discovery of gold, at Rancho San Francisco in the mountains north of present-day Los Angeles, had been in 1842, six years before Marshall's discovery, while California was still part of Mexico.

Ownership of 1, 051. 44 acres ( for all practical intents being the exact area of land occupied by the original mission buildings, cemeteries, and gardens ) was subsequently conveyed to the Church, along with the Cañada de los Pinos ( or College Rancho ) in Santa Barbara County comprising, and La Laguna in San Luis Obispo County, consisting of.

Highwayman Jack Powers briefly took over Mission Santa Inés and the adjacent Rancho San Marcos in 1853, intending to rustle the cattle belonging to rancher Nicolas A. Den, but he was defeated in a bloodless armed confrontation.

The city was founded in 1850 by William McDaniel, on a part of the 1843 Mexican land grant Rancho Los Putos purchased from Manuel Cabeza Vaca.

The county was named after the 1844 Rancho Colus Mexican land grant to John Bidwell.

Although de Celis's claim had been filed in October 1852, two years after California had been admitted into the Union as a state, it was not until January 8, 1873 that a formal U. S. survey showed the Rancho Ex-Mission de San Fernando area as, the largest area of any single grant in California.

One of the best-known ranches was Rancho de la Chua.

His ranch headquarters became a stopping point for travelers and in 1879, a post office was established there with the name Waugh's Rancho.

La Salle County was formally organized in 1880 and Stuart's Rancho, near Guajoco, was desiginated the county seat.

A settlement called La Habitación, also known as Rancho San Luis or San Luisito, was established north of the river at the site of present-day Hidalgo, in 1774.

The original name of the airport, Rancho Boyeros, meaning the "( Bull ) Drover Ranch ", was in reference to the name of the plains / territory where the airport was being built.

It was known as the Rancho Boyeros because in colonial times a local family had built a thatched hut and provided meals and an inn to the weary drovers that brought agricultural products to the capital from Batabano and Vuelta Abajo.

* 1929: The construction of José Martí Airport, formerly known as Rancho Boyeros Airport was authorized in March 1929 by General Order No. 223.

Sahuarita Lake is an artificial lake that was completed on June 22, 2001, by Rancho Sahuarita.

It was an adobe building established in 1858 on the Little Gila river also known as Capron's Rancho and was also a trading post.

After his death in 1804, his sons retained title to Rancho Los Nietos, but these lands were eventually broken up and distributed among them in 1833 by a grant from the Mexican governor, José Figueroa.

That land and other Rancho properties were finally sold to the American Abel Stearns, then acquired by the Robinson Trust, a group of investors, which eventually parlayed their holdings into a vast land speculation business.

( As part of his arrangement to build and operate the sugar beet factory, William Clark and his brother H. Ross, who actually ran the Los Alamitos operation, also arranged to purchase significant area east of the factory as well as of land north of the sugar plant — most of the latter in the Rancho Los Cerritos boundaries — that would eventually become the city of Lakewood.

Rancho Cotate was sold in 1849 to Dr. Thomas S. Page, of Cotati, and eventually broken up and sold off piecemeal to incoming settlers.

Crosby eventually left Rancho Cotate high school in Rohnert Park, California, to do home study and begin his own band, which he dubbed VAST.

The highway leaves the San Juan Capistrano city limits and turns northeast, going through the community of Rancho Mission Viejo and entering Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park and eventually Cleveland National Forest.

It was discovered in 1542 by Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, and eventually became part of the Rancho El Conejo land grant by the Spanish government ( in Spanish conejo means " rabbit ", and refers to the rabbits common to the region, specifically the Desert Cottontail and Brush Rabbit species ).

Rancho Cotate was sold in 1849 to Dr. Thomas S. Page, of Cotati, and eventually broken up and sold off piecemeal to incoming settlers.

Arthur Fremont Gilmore brought his family to Los Angeles from Illinois in 1874, started a dairy business and eventually made enough money to buy part of Rancho La Brea, roughly bounded by Beverly Boulevard, 3rd Street, and Fairfax and La Brea Avenues.

He eventually returned to California where he rented a room at the El Rancho Motel in Stockton on December 26.

Brentwood was originally laid out on land donated from property owned by John Marsh, an East Contra Costa County pioneer who acquired Rancho Los Meganos, the land grant that Brentwood is built upon, in 1837 from Jose Noriega.

In 1884 Charles King acquired of the Mexican land grant Rancho San Lorenzo, and began growing of wheat.

By then, Abel Stearns had acquired Rancho Los Coyotes in consideration for loans made to Pio and Andrés Pico.

More land was later added to the grant, giving it the name of Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, which stayed with the ranch until the Marine Corps acquired it in 1942.

Hancock, born and raised in a home at what is now the La Brea tar pits, inherited, which his father, Major Henry Hancock had acquired from the Rancho La Brea property owned by the family of Jose Jorge Rocha.

Isaias W. Hellman, a Los Angeles banker, acquired Rancho Cucamonga at a sheriff ’ s sale in 1871.

* In 2004, Barco acquired Folsom Research, Inc, based in Rancho Cordova, California, USA.

In 1889 he acquired all of Rancho Los Encinos in the San Fernando Valley.

During this time ( 1865 ) he acquired Rancho Piedra Blanca at San Simeon, California.

In 2006, the company acquired land in Rio Rancho, New Mexico for construction of a new studio facility.

In 1908 Cudahy sold his share of the Cudahy Meatpacking Company and acquired a 2, 800 acre ( 11 km² ) Rancho San Antonio east of Los Angeles, California.

Phillips Ranch is located on land which served as part of the ranch of Louis Phillips, who in 1864 acquired the southern end of the Rancho San Jose from two businessmen who had previously bought it from Ricardo Vejar.

The ranch's history can be traced back to 1845 when John ( Don Juan ) Forster acquired Rancho La Paz and Mission San Juan Capistrano.

In 1908 Michael Cudahy acquired the remaining 2, 800 acre ( 11 km² ) Rancho San Antonio.