Rancho San Miguel (West) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rancho San Miguel was a 6,663-acre (26.96 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Sonoma County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to William Marcus West. The grant was located north of present day Santa Rosa, between Mark West Creek and Santa Rosa Creek, and encompassed present day Mark West and Mark West Springs. William Mark West (d.1849), a Scot, came to Sonoma in 1832, soon after marrying Guadalupe Vasquez, a niece of General Vallejo in Santa Cruz, Mexico.[4] Mark West built an adobe and established a trading post and post office near the stream which now bears his name.