Rancho San Isidro Ajajolojol

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Rancho San Isidro Ajajolojol, also known as Rancho Joljol or Toljol or Rancho Jesus Maria or San Ysidro Ajajolojol, was a land grant made to in 1836 by interim Governor Nicolas Gutierrez.

Location[]

It covered 26,019.53 acres in what is now in the Tijuana Municipality of Baja California, Mexico 14 miles east of Tijuana, and 9 miles west of Tecate along the northern tributaries of the Tijuana River near the United States boundary in Baja California Territory.[1][2]

The property of Rancho San Isidro Ajajolojol, lies at an elevation of 987feet (301 meters), bounded on the west by the mountains dividing it from Rancho Tijuana.[3]

History[]

In 1822, José López and his brother requested a concession for the Rancho San Ysidro Ajolojol, east of what later became Rancho Tía Juana.[4] This ranch was reported in 1828 to be a stock range.[1] José Lopez was the son of Ignacio Lopez a soldier at the San Diego Presidio. With his father and his brother , Jose Lopez participated in Pio Pico's revolt against Governor Manuel Victoria, opponent of secularizing the missions, in 1831.[5]

Like many ranchos east of San Diego it was attacked by the Kumeyaay in 1837 and abandoned for a time requiring a new grant to be made later. It was formally granted to Juan Ignacio Lopez on June 11, 1840 as Rancho Toljol.[6] The Expediente for Rancho Joljol successfully submitted, formal title to the grant was recorded on July 12, 1840, however it was strangely recorded as Toljol.[6]

Gold was found at the ranch in 1851 and subsequently mined there.[7] Its grant title was confirmed by the Mexican Government in 1861 and it is still in existence.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, Vol. 3, The History Company, San Francisco, 1886, p.612 n.7
  2. ^ José Matías Moreno, David Piñera Ramírez, Jorge Martínez Zepeda, Descripción del partido Norte de la Baja California, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas UNAM-UABC, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 1985, p.27
  3. ^ a b Baja California/Rancho San Isidro Ajolojol from es.getamap.net accessed July 20, 2014
  4. ^ Antonio Padilla Corona, THE RANCHO TÍA JUANA (TIJUANA) GRANT, THE JOURNAL OF SAN DIEGO HISTORY, SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Winter/Spring 2004, Volume 50, Numbers 1 & 2, Iris H. W. Engstrand & Molly McClain, Editors, pp.34-35, notes 21,22,23
  5. ^ Bancroft, History of California, Vol.3, p.201, n.87 "Bandini says there were 14 men in the first revolutionary party. Pico names, besides the 3 signers, Ignacio, Juan, and Jose Lopez; Abel Stearns; Juan Maria Marron; Andres and Antonio Ibarra; Uamaso and Gervasio Alipas; Juan Osuna; Silverio Rios; another citizen, and a cholo to carry ammunition."
  6. ^ a b California Surveyor General's Office, Biennial Report of the Surveyor-General of the State of California, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881, p.387, 519
  7. ^ Lawrence D. Taylor, The Mining Boom in Baja California from 1850 to 1891 and the Emergence of Tijuana as a Border Community, On the Border: Society and Culture Between the United States and Mexico, edited by Andrew Grant Wood, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2004, pp.6-7

Coordinates: 32°32′24″N 116°47′21″W / 32.54000°N 116.78917°W / 32.54000; -116.78917

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