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Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: January 16, 2010
Caption: Site of San Justo Ranch Home Marker - Wide View
Additional Description: From Barrows and Ingersoll's A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California(1893), "...Hollister, the county seat of San Benito county, was named after Colonel W. W. Hollister..., who, with the Flints and Bixby's brought improved American sheep all the way from Ohio, in the early fifties, to California... These enterprising sheep farmers, pioneers in introducing improved sheep into this State, purchased the "San Justo ranch," a Mexican grant of nearly 35,000 acres.... Colonel Hollister acquired control of the ranch, and in 1862, built what is known as the Montgomery House, the oldest house in the present town of Hollister. It is said that during the '60s, there were several hundred feet of troughs used for watering sheep in the vicinity of where Third street is now located."
Submitted: January 29, 2010, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p94384
File Size: 1.416 Megabytes

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