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A Brief History Of The City Of Salinas
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A Brief History Of The City Of Salinas |
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A Brief History of the City of Salinas
Small tribes of Native Americans first made their home here in the Salinas Valley many centuries before the first European explorers came to California to build a president in Monterey and missions in Carmel, Soledad, San Juan Bautista and the San Antonio Valley.
During the time of Spanish rule settlements developed around the missions here on the Central Coast, but the area remained largely undeveloped until after Mexico overthrew their Spanish rulers and began granting lands in Alta California to its people.
"Salinas" is Spanish for 'salt marsh' because at that time there was a large slough that ran through the area. The Mexican government granted Sausal and Nacional among some of the first ranchos after Mexico seceded from Spain in 1822. It was on adjoining parts of these ranchos that "Salinas City" was born after California became a territory of the United States.
Early in the gold rush years James Bryant Hill bought Rancho Nacional and became a pioneer in the agricultural industry by farming wheat; the valley had primarily been used for cattle and other livestock from the time of some of it's earliest settlers until the 1920's. Sometime in 1854 Mr. Hill was named postmaster of Salinas, even though there was no town "officially" of that name yet. In 1852 Jacob Leese purchased Rancho Sausal for $600, later he sold 80 acres to Elias Howe. Howe built an...Read entire document
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