Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy

Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy was a 17,773-acre (71.92 km2) Mexican land grant in the Santa Clara River Valley, in present-day Ventura County, California, and granted in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Manuel Jimeno Casarin.

[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.

[7] In the 1850s, the ranch came under the ownership of T. Wallace More, and his brothers Andrew and Henry, owners also of the neighboring Rancho Sespe.

George G. Briggs, of Marysville, California, purchased the rancho from the More Brothers in 1862, planning to plant fruit orchards.

[9][10] In 1872 Nathan Weston Blanchard, purchased 2,700 acres (10.9 km2) from Briggs and founded Santa Paula.