Rancho Tajauta was a Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Anastasio Avila.Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco The grant was named for the Gabrielino/Tongva place name of Tajáuta. The grant encompassed present-day Willowbrook and Watts.Diseño del Rancho Tajauta
History Anastasio Avila, one of the sons of Cornelio Avila, was alcalde of Los Angeles in 1819 – 1821, and granted one square league in 1843.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Tajauta was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 167 SDFinding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 and the grant was patented to Anastasio's son Enrique Avila in 1873. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Rancho Tajauta was surveyed in 1858 by Henry Hancock, deputy United States surveyor, and the survey approved in 1860.William Maxwell Evarts, 1869, In the matter of the survey of the Rancho "Tajauta " California
The legacy of Rancho Tajauta survives in the name Tajauta Avenue in the Compton/Carson area.
See also Ranchos of California List of Ranchos of California Watts, California Category: Tongva populated places
References
External links Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County