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Temecula Valley Woman’s Club
Presents Check to the
Santa Rosa Plateau Reserve
National Park Ranger Rob
Hicks accepted a check from the Temecula Valley Woman’s Club intended to
“purchase a piece of the region’s history”. The purchase, which will be
displayed at the Visitor Center, is a framed rendering of the original plot
plans of an area of Santa Rosa. The Santa Rosa Plateau became Rancho Santa Rosa
under a 47,000 acre 1846 Mexican land grant to cattle and sheep rancher Juan
Moreno. In 1855, Senor Moreno sold his ranch to land-grantee neighbor Augustin
Machado (owner of the Rancho La Laguna, today the Lake Elsinore area) for one
thousand American dollars. The Moreno and Machado adobes still stand as the
oldest structures in Riverside County. The ranch passed from owner to owner
until 1904, when the Vails, a ranching family from Arizona, purchased the Santa
Rosa, plus much of what was to become Murrieta and Temecula. Rob Hicks thanked
the TVWC for their contribution stating they were, “Leaving a Legacy”. |
