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In the 1870s, the Spaniard Juan Murrieta and his business partners found green pastures for their sheep in the Temecula Valley, where Native Americans had lived for centuries in southwestern Riverside County. The Spaniards owned 52,000 acres consisting of two Mexican land grants, the Temecula and Pauba Ranchos, until the partnership dissolved. Murrieta stayed on his 1,000-acre ranch until 1884, when he sold his land to a developer who named the new town site Murrietaville. Two years earlier, the Southern California Railroad ...

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Murrieta 2006, Arcadia Publishing (SC), Charleston, SC

ISBN-13: 9780738546698

Trade paperback

Murrieta 2006, Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

ISBN-13: 9781531628420

Hardcover