William Wells Hollister can not imagine the markings in California while kicking off the heads of 6,000 sheep from Licking County, Ohio to California.
The trekking of 2,000 miles of Hollister where he was accompanied by brothers, sisters and fifty herds ended in San Juan Bautista.
When he arrived, only 1,000 of the original 6,000 sheeps were alive. Still, he tailored the remaining wool of this "wolf" as one of California's wonderful private songs.
He is responsible for colonizing the Lompoc of Hollister town and San Baba district in San Benito County.
One town of Hollister in San Benito County and one of Gunnisha says, "As so many California towns are named saints, let's make this a sinner's name."
Hollister was a diligent person. His wealth has expanded for the next 14 years. I sold San San Rancho in San Benito County and returned to Santa Barbara country.
Colonel Hollister partnered with Dibblee Brothers, Thomas and Albert and closed all opportunities to purchase land grants. Refugio Rancho of Santa Barbara County bought with several other land grants such as Lompoco, Las Cruces, Salsipuedes, San Julian, Mission Viejo.
The main hope of Hollister was to acquire the Tekolottito Valley with the subsidy of Dos Puebros who was absorbed in raising sheep 17 years ago.
The property was on the market, but it had a cloudy title. A few heirs of the original subsidy owner were still alive and there was a doubt as to whether the property could be sold or not. This did not prevent Hollister from plunging prior to the contract. The legal obligation of purchase was still in litigation at the time of death.
Money has not yet agreed to a wealthy Hollister. He built fencing more than six miles, but in essence Santa Barbara County did not catch it. He established a dairy farm, imported a landscape gardener to plant scenic lawn and planted exotic plants around property.
He spreads the county road that connects Santa Barbara and Gorea, now Hollister Avenue, and touches the palm and pine paths on it.
Always adventurous Hollister imported Japanese tea plant 25 bushels who thought they would grow in soil and climate of his Dos Puebros Rancho.
He hired two Japanese tea planters to plant 50,000 seedlings. Frost killed the entire tea project overnight.
Refugio Rancho is probably the first working ranch away from the mission of evolution in Santa Barbara County.
Hollister and Dibre's brothers purchased their ownership from the heir of Captain José Francisco de Ortega who released Grant in 1834.
James J. Hollister, Sr. Is the son of Hollister and has been supervised by Rancho Refugio and operates in a style different from "Old West". He was known for adopting the "bloody hiding" method of pulling out living things drifting from a canyon filled with ponds at a ranch.
It was a method devised by Ortegas and involved in placement of hiding places from the newly slaughtered bull on Bush. The fresh odor of the skin was drawing a cow like a magnet from a grassy field with no feathers.
Governor Juan B. Alvarado was awarded 13 major farms in Santa Barbara County between 1836 and 1842. The first subsidy with Alvarado's signature is 24,992 acres of La Punta de la Concep It was -tion. After that it was divided into two well-known ranches: La españa and el cocillo.
These names mean "sword" and "man of arms" and were dubbed in a suitable relationship by a soldier of the Portola Land Expedition who was looking for Monterey Ansenada, who crossed the coast in 1769 .
In the 1860 's, Chinese workers worked on real estate in Goleta Valley and took Santa Barbara County from Canton to Colonel WW Hall Lister to work as a hotel bus boy, chef and waiter.
From 1869 to 1877, WW Hollister planted 25,000 almonds, 1,500 walnuts in the UK, 1,500 orange trees, 1,000 lemons, 500 limes and 750 olives.
President Hollister 's land subsidy included Lompoc. A vast herd of sheep was shed before selling part of ownership to the Lompoc Valley Land Company in 1874. The land is composed of Lompoc Rancho and Mission Vieja de la Primaira Rancho. This town is 9 miles from the coast of the center of the Lompoc Valley. The lot sold well, the town flourished.
The Chumash Indian called for a region called "Lum Poc" which means a small lake or laguna for the lake that has disappeared now. The Spaniard called it "lumpoco" to emphasize the second syllable. By the time the settlers arrived in the valley, the name was Anglicized.
Lompoc's founder, following Vineland, New Jersey, proposed the idea to be called New Vineland, which is a prosperous New Fine Land community, imitating the city. However, Lompoc's Citizen opposed this idea. Another attempt in 1939 to change the name to La Purisima was also defeated.
