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Rancho El Cajon

Don Miguel de Pedrorena, a noted Californio ranchero and merchant whose family owned Rancho El Cajón.

Rancho El Cajón was a 48,800-acre (197 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pio Pico to María Antonia Estudillo de Pedrorena.[1] The name means "the box" in Spanish, and refers to the valley between hills. The grant encompassed present day El Cajon, Bostonia, Santee, Lakeside, Flinn Springs, and the eastern part of La Mesa.[2] The grant contained the 28-acre (0.11 km2) Rancho Cañada de los Coches grant.

  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 El Cajon

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