Rancho San José de Buenos Ayres
Rancho San José de Buenos Ayres was a 4,438-acre (17.96 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California given by Governor Micheltorena in 1843 to Maximo Alanis.The area that was given to Alanis now occupies Westwood, UCLA, Holmby Hills, and Bel Air, Los Angeles.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.In the late 1880s, the Los Angeles and Pacific Railroad (of which Wolfskill was a director) and the Santa Monica Land and Water Company partnered to run a Los Angeles to Santa Monica rail line through the ranch and lay out 800 lots for the prospective town of "Sunset".In February 1891, Wolfskill was awarded $293,000, and the remaining unsold ranch land was returned to him,[9] but it wasn't subsequently worked or utilized for agriculture.
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