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A Man Named Hollister

Hollister, supervised Rancho Refugio, operating it in a variety not unlike the "Previous West." He was determined for using the "bloody hide" approach of drawing stray critters from the chaparral-choked canyons on the ranch. It was a technique supposedly invented by the Ortegas and related the placement of a disguise from a freshly butchered bull in excessive of a bush. The odor of the refreshing disguise drew bellow-ing cattle like a magnet from the brushy hillsides with no the demand of vaqueros. Gov. Juan B. Alvarado granted thirteen important ranches in Santa Barbara County between 1836 and 1842. The 1st grant bearing Alvarado's signature was La Punta de la Concep-tion, a 24,992-acre tract. It was afterwards divided into two higher-recognized ranches, La Espada and El Cojo. These names, indicating "the sword" and "the lame man" experienced been dubbed on the correct-ties by troopers of the Portola Land Expedition that handed up the coast in 1769 in research of the ensenada of Monterey. In the 1860s, Chinese staff had been introduced to Santa Barbara County from Canton by Colonel W. W. Hollister to work on his Goleta Valley estate and to provide as bus boys, cooks, and waiters in his lodge. In between 1869 and 1877, W.W. Hollister planted twenty five,000 almond trees, 1,500 English walnuts, 1,five hundred orange trees, a single,000 lemons, five hundred limes, and 750 olives. Col. Hollister's land grants incorporated Lompoc. Underneath, extensive herds of his sheep grazed ahead of he offered part of his holdings to the Lompoc Valley Land Organization in 1874. The lands consisted of the Lompoc Rancho and the Mission Vieja de la Purisima Rancho. The town was laid out 9 miles from the shoreline, near to the heart of the Lompoc Valley. The heaps bought nicely and the town flourished. The Chumash Indians referred to as the spot "Lum Poc", indicating modest lake or laguna, for a now vanished lake. The Spanish referred to as it "lumpoco" accenting the second syllable. By the time settlers commenced to get there in the valley, the identify experienced been Anglicized. The founding fathers of Lompoc modeled their city following Vineland, N.J., a flourishing termperance local community, and proposed that it be identified as New Vineland. Nevertheless, the citi-zens of Lompoc opposed the idea. One more consider out in 1939 to adjust the discover to La Purisima was also defeated.

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