Rancho San Antonio

The forty years of service this grant rewarded included a raid. In 1805, after an attack on the priest and majordomo of Mission San José, Sergeant Luís María Peralta led the San Francisco garrison into the San Joaquin Valley and fell on a village; the victory made him comisionado of the pueblo of San José two years later. He had come north with Anza's colonists at seventeen, and he never lived on this grant. His four sons did, and in 1842 he divided it among them. The plaques beside it mark the Anza route.

What the plaque says

Rancho San Antonio Governor Pablo de Solá, last Spanish governor of California, awarded the San Antonio grant to Don Luis Maria Peralta on August 3, 1820, in recognition of forty years of service. From this point northward, the grant embraced over 43,000 acres, now occupied by the cities of San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, Berkeley, and Albany. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 246 Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the City of San Leandro, the Club Iberico Español, the Sociedad de Agustina de Aragon, and the Supreme Council, U.P.E.C., March 14, 1970.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Beach Overlook — 25 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
• Muir Woods National Monument — 25 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.

More markers nearby

• Estudillo Home — 0.3 mi
• Peralta House — 0.3 mi
• San Leandro Oyster Beds — 2.9 mi
• Mills Hall — 3.8 mi