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Map of Sacramento Valley - Land Grants Map of Sacramento Valley - Land Grants
1851

Map of Sacramento and Lower San Joaquin Valleys, dated 1851, shows land grants in the region during the final decades of the Mexican Era. Rancho Los Putos where the Pena Adobe was built about 1842 is shown at lower center. See the Red Arrow....
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Map number three - Solano County Land Grants - 1878 Map number three - Solano County Land Grants - 1878
1878

Locations include: Vacaville, Los Putos Rancho, Armijo Grant, Suisun Grant, Suscol Grant, Green Valley. Historical atlas map of Solano County, California. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Thompson and West. San Francisco, Cala. 1878. Thos. [...]

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Map of Fairfield and Suisun California Map of Fairfield and Suisun California
1877

1877 map of Fairfield and Suisun reproduced from Thompson and West Historical Atlas of Solano County by the Solano County Historical Society - Jan. 1959
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Map number one - Pleasants Valley, Vacaville, CA, 1878 Map number one - Pleasants Valley, Vacaville, CA, 1878
1878

Locations include: Pleasants Valley, Silveyville, Rancho Rio De Los Putos, Los Putos Rancho, Rural Vacaville. Historical atlas map of Solano County, California. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Thompson and West. San Francisco, Cala. 1878. Thos. [...]

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1890 Official Map of the County of Solano California 1890 Official Map of the County of Solano California
1890

Showing Mexican Grants, United States Government, Swamp Land Surveys, Present Private Land Ownership, Roads and Railroads. Compiled by County Surveyor E.N. Eager. Colored by E.M. Sleator. Approved by the Board of Supervisors on April 7, 1890. [...]

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The Armijo trail led from Santa Fe to L.A. / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [497] [WAYITWAS-2004-497]
During the late 1830s and into the 1840s, more than 500 land grants were awarded in California, mostly to settlers of Spanish descent. Several of these grants were located in the area which later became Solano County, among them the Soscol grant given to General Vallejo, the Rio de Los Putos grant owned by William Wolfskill, the Suisun Rancho of Chief Solano, Juan Manuel Vaca's and Juan Felipe Pena's Lihuaytos grant and Rancho Tolenas or Armijo, given to Don Jose Francisco Armijo.
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Map number two - Silveyville and Tremont, CA, 1878 Map number two - Silveyville and Tremont, CA, 1878
1878

Locations include: Silveyville, Tremont, Elmira, Rancho Rio De Los Putos, Los Putos Rancho. Historical atlas map of Solano County, California. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Thompson and West. San Francisco, Cala. 1878. Thos. [...]

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Official Map of the County of Solano California Official Map of the County of Solano California
1915

Showing Mexican Grants, U.S. Surveys, Swamp Lands, Political Subdivisions, Cities, Towns, Roads and Railroads. Compiled by County Surveyor E.N. Eager. Drawn by Kenneth J. Miller. [...]

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Armijo family prospered on Tolenas land grant / Dingler, Nancy [477] [RETROSPECT-2003-477]
Solano County was originally made up of six Spanish/Mexican land grants, all acquired by General Mariano Vallejo. He encouraged Mexican and American citizens to settle in Northern California, purchase land from Vallejo, raise cattle and their own little empires. One of those families were the Armijos, who arrived in the Suisun Valley around 1842.
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John Currey and the Vaca-Pena Land Grant Cases / Bowen, Jerry [11] [WAYITWAS-2000-11]
All Mexican land grants in California were poorly defined - a tree, a mountain bluff, lagoon, river, or ravine served as boundaries and frequently these specified more land than was intended to be granted. No accurate surveys were made and the only legal restrictions falling within these vague limits were that excess land would revert to the public domain. Many problems were caused by the vague descriptions after California became a territory and later a state..
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