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    Rancho Simi, also known as Rancho San José de Nuestra Señora de Altagracia y Simí, was a 113,009-acre (457 km2) Spanish land grant in what is now eastern...
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    lost the ownership of El Rancho Simí excluding the Rancho Tapo. El Rancho Tapo was part of the original 113,009-acre Rancho Simí grant, but sometime around...
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    Corriganville Movie Ranch (category Culture of Simi Valley, California)
    is currently a public park in the City of Simi Valley, called Corriganville Park, and operated by Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District. Built on land...
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    Oak Park, California (category Simi Hills)
    Area on the north and east and Rancho Simi Open Space on the south. It sits within valleys in the Simi Hills capped by Simi Peak which borders the community...
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  • Simi, a village on Crete Rancho Simi, a 1795 Spanish land grant Simi Valley Simi Hills, a mountain range Simi Peak Arroyo Simi, sometimes called Simi...
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    trade of fused shale in the region. The area was later part of the large Rancho Simi land grant given in 1795 to the Pico brothers by Governor Diego de Borica...
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    Conservancy and the county-based Conejo Recreation and Park District and Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District, responsible for the parks those four organizations...
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    west by the Simi Hills, on the east by Rancho Tujunga, and on the south by the Montañas de Portesuelo (Santa Monica Mountains). The Rancho Ex-Mission San...
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    historic Simi Adobe–Strathearn House served as the headquarters of Rancho Simi, also known as Rancho San José de Nuestra Senora de Altagracia y Simi, one...
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  • along the Arroyo Simi (river) in the western Simi Valley and southern Oxnard Plain, from near present-day Moorpark to Camarillo. Rancho Simi bordered it on...
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    operated by the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District (RSRPD), while the cross and its immediate surroundings are owned by the Simi Valley Historical...
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    the Montalvo to Newhall line. The first passenger station to serve the Rancho Simi area was the Santa Susana Depot, originally located at Tapo Street and...
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    known as ranchos and consisted of thousands of acres of land that were used primarily as ranch land for livestock. In Ventura County, Rancho Simi was granted...
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    Westlake Village, California (category Simi Hills)
    1795, the area became part of one of the first Spanish land grants, Rancho Simi, given to the Pico family of California. When Mexico won independence...
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  • non-commercial, 50 kW shortwave (SW) Christian/Gospel radio station located in Rancho Simi, California, though their studios are in Los Angeles, which they claim...
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    came to own numerous ranchos in the region, including Rancho Simi, Rancho Las Posas, Rancho San Julian, Rancho Los Alamos and Rancho El Conejo. Pablo de...
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    Santa Susana Depot (category History of Simi Valley, California)
    Two Story Combination Depot No. 22. The depot served the community of Rancho Simi as a passenger station, telegraph office, and freight depot where farmers...
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    grantees, by Mexican Governor Pío Pico. The Rancho El Conejo was to the west, and included that end of the Simi Hills.[citation needed] In the first half...
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    railroad town located mostly within the City of Simi Valley. A small portion of the community, outside the Simi Valley city limits to the south of the Ventura...
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    children, from which members of the Pico family all descend. He was granted Rancho Simi in 1795. He died 1815 in San Buenaventura. José María Pico was born in...
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    counties, California. These include Rancho Simi, Rancho Las Posas, Rancho San Julian, Rancho Los Alamos and Rancho El Conejo. De La Guerra married María...
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    one of two land grants in what became Ventura County, the other being Rancho Simi. As a result of the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, Alta California...
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    Santa Susana Pass (category Simi Hills)
    opened the route in 1904. The railroad built the Santa Susana Depot in Rancho Simi on Los Angeles Avenue at Tapo Street in 1903. Bell Moving Picture Ranch...
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    the Arroyo Simi, exhibit signs, sixteen new trail entries, and more. The area is administered as the Arroyo Simi Bike Path by the Rancho Simi Recreation...
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    and mountain biking. Parks in Ventura County, California Simi Hills topics CRPD.org: Rancho Conejo Playfields website Conejo Conejo-openspace.org: Arroyo...
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    Rancho Las Vírgenes was a 17,760-acre (71.9 km2) land grant in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills, in present day western Los Angeles County, California...
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    The ranchos of Los Angeles County were large-scale land grants made by the governments of Spain and Mexico between 1784 and July 7, 1846, to private individuals...
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  • Valley Santa Paula Cemetery, Santa Paula Simi Valley Public Cemetery, includes El Rancho Simi Pioneer Cemetery, Simi Valley Davis Cemetery and Arboretum,...
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  • board member John Harrington – San Gabriel city councilor Kate O'Brien – Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District board member Nils Nehrenheim – Redondo Beach...
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    Tierra Rejada Park (category Geography of Simi Valley, California)
    Rejada Park is a 150-acre park located in the northern Simi Hills foothills, in southwestern Simi Valley city near Moorpark, in Ventura County, California...
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