Diseño de Rancho San Ramon

By Beverly Lane

A diseño (sketch-map) described the proposed grant boundaries. It was submitted to the Governor's office with the individual's application and appeal for a grant. Note that the North arrow depicted at bottom right is pointing to the right. Monte Diablo is bottom center. The creek to the left, or south end, is in Bollinger Canyon.

The stamp at the bottom, 322 ND indicates this to be a piece of evidence in the Northern District Case No. 322 in which US courts addressed the ownership of the rancho in 1855. The map would probably have been done in the 1830s. [Back to Rancho Article]

Sources: Warren Beck’s Historical Atlas of California; articles by Leonora Fink and Dorothy Mutnick; History of Contra Costa County (1882); Mildred Hoover’s Historic Spots in California.

First appeared as a column called Presenting the Past  in the Danville Weekly

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