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Tejon Ranch Map

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Tejon Ranch Map
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While centered on Bakersfield and Kern County, the map features Rancho El Tejon, Rancho Castac, Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente, Rancho La Liebre, Rancho San Emidio, and the Buena Vista Lake Reservoir. The land includes parts of northwest Los Angeles County, northeast Ventura County, Kern County, and southern Tulare County. This could have been part of a larger map, as each of the named counties represented are not completely spelled out, each missing at least one letter. The four square league Rancho San Emidio grant was made in 1842; while in 1843 the Mexican government made land grants for Rancho El Tejon (1843; 22,178 acres), Rancho Castac (1843; 97,617 acres), Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente (1846; 126,626-acres), and the Rancho La Liebre (1846, 48,800-acres). At one time these properties were all held by Edward F. Beale. In 1846 Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, eventual owner of Tejon Ranch, arrived in California as a naval officer, and served with Fremont during the Mexican War, and is recognized as a war hero during the Battle of San Pasqual. As a Navy lieutenant, Beale carried the news of the discovery of gold in California to Washington, two months ahead of Kit Carson.

Ownership of the properties on the map are listed as M.E. BEALE, dating the map's creation at the time between Beale's passing in 1893 and the sale of the property in 1912. Buena Vista Lake Reservoir was a fresh-water lake now a dry lake in Kern County, California in the Tulare Lake Basin in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Originally fed by the waters of the Kern River, in the mid 1900's it dried up after its tributary river waters were impounded in Isabella Dam for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses. Includes 10 copies, measures 41" x 28", in fair-good condition with some foxing, soiling, and tears long the edges.








City: Bakersfield
State: California,
Date: c1901

FHWAC#: 24448