Rancho Cañada de San Miguelito

Rancho Cañada de San Miguelito was a 8,877-acre (35.92 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Ventura County, California, given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Ramón Rodríguez.

[3] 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.

As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Cañada de San Miguelito was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,[4][5] and the grant was patented to Juana Tico de Rodríguez heirs of Ramón Rodríguez in 1871.

In 1870, he bought Rancho Cañada de San Miguelito, and the property became known as the Taylor Ranch.

[7] On the death in 1911 of Taylor's widow, her will stipulated that her assets be sold and one-third of the proceeds be used to found a university in Ventura County.