Rancho La Habra (also called "Rancho Cañada de La Habra") was a 6,698-acre (27.11 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County and Orange County, California[1][2] given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Mariano Reyes Roldan.
California's Mexican Governor Juan B. Alvarado awarded the land grant of 1.5 square leagues to Mariano Reyes Roldán, a 40-year-old ayuntamiento (municipal council member) of 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.
Hole and his partners began selling off smaller parcels of land, sowing the seeds that led to creation of cities of La Habra first and then Brea.
[10] Edwin G. Hart was a developer who was born in Ohio, came to California at a young age and lived in Sierra Madre.