Rancho La Goleta was a 4,426-acre (17.91 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Daniel A.
[1] The grant extended along the Pacific coast from today’s Fairview Avenue in present-day Goleta, east to Hope Ranch.
[4] 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.
[8] Daniel A. Hill (1797–1865), of Billerica, Massachusetts, came to California from Hawaii in 1823, and settled in Santa Barbara, and married Rafaela Sabina Luisa Ortega (1809–1879) in 1826.
She was the granddaughter of José Francisco Ortega, grantee of Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio.