Spanish ships associated with the Manila Galleon trade probably made emergency stops along the coast during the next 167 years, but no permanent settlements were established.
The first European land exploration of the upper Spanish Las Californias Province was by the Portolá expedition, led by Gaspar de Portolà.
As at nearly all of the coastal creeks in this region, the explorers found a native Chumash village, that subsisted primarily by ocean fishing.
The next day, the explorers continued past Point Conception and camped near a native village close to today's Jalama Beach County Park,[4] just south of the boundary of Vandenberg Air Force Base.
On August 28, the expedition moved on to a campsite at one of the spring-fed creeks reaching the sea from the south side of Point Arguello.
Anastasio was a soldier at the Presidio of Santa Barbara and, in 1834, commissioner of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.
[6][7] 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.
Carrillo refused to accept the patent because a tract one half mile square on which Point Concepción light-house stood since 1852 was not included.
But the Southern Pacific railroad did not reach Point Conception until 1899, and Murphy would lose Rancho El Cojo through bank foreclosure.