Rancho Santa Rosa was a Mexican land grant in present day Santa Barbara County, California one and half square leagues given in 1839 by Governor Pro-tem Manuel Jimeno, and two additional square leagues given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Francisco Cota.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 in the Santa Ynez Valley extended along both banks of the Santa Ynez River at Santa Rosa Creek, west of present day Buellton.Diseño del Rancho Santa Rosa
History Francisco Atanasio Cota (1787–1851) was a soldier at the Presidio of Santa Barbara. In 1811, he married María de Jesus Olivera (1791–1877). He was administrator at Mission Santa Inés 1837-1841.
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 Santa Rosa was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 294 SDFinding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 and the grant was patented to María Jesús Olivera de Cota in 1872. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
Joseph W. CooperFrank Sands, 1893 ,A pastoral prince: the history and reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, Santa Barbara bought Rancho Santa Rosa in 1868.
See also Ranchos of California List of Ranchos of California
References
External links Ranchos of Santa Barbara County Map