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Rancho Napa
Contra Costa County, California

During the era when California was a province of independent Mexico, the following 12 ranchos were granted between 1836 and 1846 in Contra Costa County

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Janss Corporation
Nearly a century later, (1907), Jacob Stern, a Fullerton resident and owner of portions of the former Yorba lands, sold a large area to the Janss Corporation. The Janss Corporation subdivided this property and named the new town "Yorba Linda". "Yorba" after the early land grant family and "Linda" meaning pretty in Spanish. The Janss Corporation began selling its Yorba Linda subdivisions emphasizing its agricultural potential and offering parcels of land for $150 an acre. ++++++++++ The land eventually passed on to other family members, and Porfirio Yorba sold it in 1907. After changing hands another three times, the Yorba land turned over to the Janss Investment Co. of Los Angeles, which completed plans for development in 1909. The original town was smaller than today; much of the eastern portion of Yorba Linda has been annexed through the years.

The Janss Co. developed Yorba Linda as a family community. Indeed, every property deed contained a condition prohibiting owners from selling alcoholic beverages on the property. If they did, the land would revert to the Janss Co. That rule remained until a 1933 US constitutional amendment repealed Prohibition. +++++ The land eventually passed on to other family members, and Porfirio Yorba sold it in 1907. After changing hands another three times, the Yorba land turned over to the Janss Investment Co. of Los Angeles, which completed plans for development in 1909. The original town was smaller than today; much of the eastern portion of Yorba Linda has been annexed through the years.

The Janss Co. developed Yorba Linda as a family community. Indeed, every property deed contained a condition prohibiting owners from selling alcoholic beverages on the property. If they did, the land would revert to the Janss Co. That rule remained until a 1933 US constitutional amendment repealed Prohibition.

http://www.yorbalindahistory.org Janss Investment Company Advertisement for Yorba Linda 1910

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Janss
Owensmouth was then known as the “baby” town of San Fernando Valley in 1912. This was mainly because of its booming population and the relatively recent founding of the town. Canoga Park’s developers then used the image of a baby-delivering stork in their promotional materials. They also presented The Stork Plaque, symbolizing the birth of Owensmouth, to prospective buyers on the opening day of land sales in the new town. On March 30, 1912, the town was founded by the major developer, Janss Corporations. Eventually the town was incorporated to the city of Los Angeles. This was mainly because the town’s water supply had been severely compromised when Owensmouth Water Tower was lost due to fire. The Town was annexed by Los Angeles on February 26, 1917.

Owensmouth Lankershim Van Nuys tract west end of SF valey

In March of 1912, with the founding of the farming community of Owensmouth, this territory became part of the West Valley's land boom. Two railroads came through the community and General H.G. Otis and M.H. Sherman joined the janss Investment Company backers to develop the area.

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Robert D. Faquhar
+++++++++++ 1937 Miss T. H. Graham's Home, Pasadena, Robert D. Farquhar, architect

American Country Houses of To-day by Samuel Howe

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Abel Stearns
A great drought in 1861 ruined Sterns and the lands went to San Francisco capitalists. The new owners organized the Los Angeles-San Bernardino Lands Company and put Stearns Ranchos on the market at prices ranging from $2 to $10 per acre.

-- Stearns gave this to a young lady for her wedding gift; Total 364,534 acres.

BERNADO YORBA
EL REFUGIO: THE WEST SANTA ANA HOME OF DOMINGO YORBA AND JOSE ANDRES SEPULVEDA

Domingo de La Resurreccion Yorba (1826 - 1889) inherited El Refugio, in what is now West Santa Ana, from his father, Jose Antonio Yorba II, after his death on January 19, 1849. Five years later, in 1854, Domingo sold his house and his interest in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana to Jose Andres Sepulveda - the owner of Rancho San Joaquin. Terry Stephenson says "The Sepulveda ranch house, called El Refugio...was the gathering place for many a fiesta, many a rodeo, and many a fandango."

El Refugio,(the Refuge), the elaborate adobe haciendas and acreage he had purchased from Domingo Yorba about 1854. El Refugio was located near present day First and Sullivan Streets in west Santa Ana.

++++++++ He married his first wife Maria de Jesus Alvarado in 1819. After her death he married Felipa Dominguez in 1829, and her death Andrea Elizalde (Avila).

In 1858, At the age of 57, Bernardo Yorba died leaving behind a large and prosperous rancho and twenty children.

Real estate consisted of Rancho La Sierra Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana; Cajon de Santa Anita???; Rancho de San Antonio - house. Rancho El Rincon???;