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Rancho Laguna, was a 4,157.02 acre Spanish land grant, part of the grant of lands from the September 1, 1772 founding of the Mission San Luis Obispo under King Carlos III, in San Luis Obispo County, California. Unlike all the other lands of the Missions the Rancho La Laguna, was returned to the Catholic Church along with all the other Mission buildings and the lands on which they stood when the claim, 609, 425, ND 388 SD, made by Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany was confirmed March 15, 1858.

History
During the time of the Missions before their end in 1833, this land was just a part of the vast holdings of the Mission. Later on July 28, 1845, Tomás Herrera, at that time the "Alcalde of the Second Instance" of San Luis Obispo, and all the residents of the Pueblo of San Luis Obispo petitioned for the grant of the land around the Laguna San Luis Obispo. The petition of Herrera and residents for Laguna San Luis Obispo was subsequently denied because there was a prior claim of a grant of the property to the Catholic Church.

About the same time, this land, later designated Rancho La Laguna, was given for the use of Miguel Avila who obtained the use of it for grazing from the Mission administrator and later based his claim to it on that possesion.

The lands of Rancho La Laguna lay southwest of San Luis Obispo enclosing within it the little lake known as Laguna San Luis Obispo between the northeast corner of the Irish Hills and the Cerro San Luis Obispo and a ridge that runs southeastward from the foot of that mountain. The boundary was trapazoidal in shape, running from its eastern most point near the corner of Elks Lane and Higuera Street, running south southwestward along Elks Land and then U.S. Route 101 to its southern corner in the gap at the head of the canyon of San Luis Creek at the eastern edge of the Irish Hills. There the line turned and ran across the hills northwestward to a point in the hills where it turns to run north northeastward to a point at the foot of the Cerro San Luis Obispo, where it turns east southeastward to its point of origin.

(Alemany)