Historical Marker · No. 425
Cañada de los Coches Rancho
Lakeside, San Diego County · California
Erected by Guyamaca Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, dedicated August 29, 1948
No state plaque stands here. The Native Sons cast this one in 1948, and it names the grantee without saying who she was. Apolinaria Lorenzana came from a Mexico City foundling home in 1800, one of a shipload of orphans sent to marry presidio soldiers. She refused, nursed and taught at the mission instead, and was called La Beata. Micheltorena gave her these 28 acres in 1843. She lost every acre she held after the American occupation and died blind and destitute in Santa Barbara in 1884.
What the plaque says
Mexican Grant Commemorating Cañada de los Coches Rancho Smallest Mexican grant in Calif. Granted in 1843 to Apolinaria Lorenzana by Governor Manuel Micheltorena Site of old gristmill Dedicated Aug. 29, 1948 by Guyamaca Parlor Native Sons of the Golden West
Where it stands
32.83639, -116.90028 · Directions
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