On January 15, 1875, Henry Mayo Newhall, an auctioneer-turned-venture capitalist whose name would become inseparable from Santa Clarita, purchased 46,460 acres of the historic Rancho San Francisco for just under $2 per acre. Before Newhall took over, the Rancho San Francisco, originally a Spanish land grant that passed into private ownership following the Mexican Revolution, encompassed much of the western ...

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