H69.304.1

Painting.  Description: "Rancho de San Luis Gonzales"; framed; "Visto del Corral"

History: early California primitive

 

From the History Information Station

Object:  Watercolor.  Rancho de San Luis Gonzaga, Visto del Corral, by F.L. (full name unknown), dated September 20, 1854.

 

History:  The 48,000 acre Rancho San Luís Gonzaga was granted to Juan Perez Pacheco in 1843.  It was located in present-day San Benito and Merced counties.  The rancho was owned by descendants of the Pacheco family until the mid-1900s, when it was purchased by the federal government and the State of California.  The original adobe ranch house stood at a site near Pacheco Pass until 1962, when the area was inundated by the waters of the San Luis Dam.

 

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