Rancho La Tajauta
Rancho La Tajauta branding iron
Town/CityLos Angeles, CA (Watts)
Los Angeles County
StateCalifornia
CountryUnited States
Coordinates33°55′46″N 118°14′33″W / 33.92944°N 118.24250°W / 33.92944; -118.24250
Established1843
OwnerAnastasio Avila
Area3,560 acres (14.4 km2)
StatusLimited public access

Rancho Tajauta was a 3,560-acre (14.4 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Anastasio Avila.[1] The grant was named for the Gabrielino/Tongva place name of Tajáuta. The grant encompassed present-day Willowbrook and Watts.[2]

History

Anastasio Avila, one of the sons of Cornelio Avila, was alcalde of Los Angeles in 1819 – 1821, and granted one square league in 1843.

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 La Tajauta was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[3][4] and the grant was patented to Anastasio's son Enrique Avila in 1873.[5] Rancho Tajauta was surveyed in 1858 by Henry Hancock, deputy United States surveyor, and the survey approved in 1860.[6]

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 Tajauta
  3. ↑ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 167 SD
  4. ↑ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
  5. ↑ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ William Maxwell Evarts, 1869, In the matter of the survey of the Rancho "Tajauta " California
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