Wasteland Becomes Productive Community Spot and Rancho Santa Fe Now Offers Good Income Producing Land, Evening Tribune, October 15 1927
Entry/Object ID
2026.005.052
Collection
Rancho Santa Fe Advertisments, Newspapers, Periodicals, and Clippings Collection
Archive Items Details
Title
Wasteland Becomes Productive Community Spot and Rancho Santa Fe Now Offers Good Income Producing Land, Evening Tribune, October 15 1927
Description
Three-page newspaper feature published in the Evening Tribune Development Section C on October 15 1927 describing the development of Rancho Santa Fe. The feature includes illustrated coverage of residential architecture, orchards, La Morada guest house, irrigation facilities, and community infrastructure, with photographs depicting homes of Barton Millard and C. A. Shaffer and agricultural plantings. Articles detail the transformation of approximately 9000 acres from former Spanish land grant to a planned agricultural and residential community under the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company managed by S. R. Nelson, including road construction, irrigation systems supplied from Lake Hodges, orchard cultivation, and residential development. Additional text provides historical context regarding the original grant to Don Juan Maria Osuna and notes ongoing estate sales and community growth.
