Santa Rita (Spanish for "Saint Rita") is a neighborhood of Salinas, California, in Monterey County.

[1] It is located north of Downtown Salinas,[2] at an elevation of 79 feet (24 m).

[1] Jose Manuel Soto bought the Santa Rita land grant and allocated 1 square mile (2.6 km2) for a town he named New Republic.

[2] The New Republic post office opened in 1870 and changed its name to Santa Rita in 1874, and closed permanently in 1907.

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