- 1835 by
Governor José
Castro to José Noriega. "
Méganos"
means "sand dunes" in Spanish.
Rancho Los
Méganos extends eastward from present-day
Antioch along...
- John Marsh, an East
Contra Costa County pioneer who
acquired Rancho Los
Méganos, the land
grant that
Brentwood is
built upon, in 1837 from Jose Noriega...
- as
having once
belonged to
Juana Sanchez. '
Meganos'
means 'sand dunes.' A "paraje que
llaman los
Méganos" 'place
called the sand dunes' (with a variant...
- The
Meganos Formation is a
geologic formation in California. It
preserves fossils dating back to the
Paleogene period.
Earth sciences portal California...
-
local historian,
Kathy Leighton, the
railroad wanted to name the
community Meganos,
commemorating the
nearby ranch owned by
Doctor John Marsh.
Local settlers...
-
Catholic in
order to buy land, and
acquired the vast land
grant of
Rancho Los
Méganos in
Contra Costa. He
became one of the
wealthiest ranchers in California...
- The
Rancho Los
Méganos mansion was
built in 1856 by John Marsh....
- Landing,
prior to its
current name. In 1848, John Marsh,
owner of
Rancho Los
Méganos, one of the
largest ranches in California,
built a
landing on the San Joaquin...
- finally, the CS-13 was at the rear. At 17:15, when the
convoy was off of Cayo
Megano, an
American Kingfisher floatplane appeared in the sky
coming from the northeast...
-
first American doctor in
California and the
owner of the
large Rancho Los
Meganos,
realized that
owning a
great rancho was
problematic if he
could not hold...
