San Francisco County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Yerba Buena Island (Goat Island) (1838)
Island of Yerba Buena (Goat Island), SF Bay, granted 1838 by Gov. Alvarado to Juan José Castro. U.S. land case ND 299 (Polack, claimant): Rejected. ~150 acres.
- Granted
- 1838 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Juan Jose Castro
- Size
- 150 acres
- County
- San Francisco County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 299, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Rejected
Open Yerba Buena Island (Goat Island) on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Family
The grantee belongs to the Castro family, one of the landholding dynasties of Mexican California.
Sources
- U.S. land case ND 299 (Polack, claimant), Bancroft Library; contested claim.
- Manuscript land case file, The Bancroft Library (digitized)
Other grants in San Francisco County
- Las Camaritas (1840)
- Rincon De Las Salinas Y Potrero Viejo (1839)