Rancho Laguna de Tache (Castro)
Rancho Laguna de Tache was a 48,801-acre (197.49 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Fresno County and Kings County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Manuel Castro. The grant is named for the lake of the Tachi band of the Yokut people. The grant extended along the north bank of the Kings River from Kingsburg down river for twenty six miles, and included the present-day Laton, Riverdale and Lanare. This grant is not to be confused with the grant of the same name on the South side of Kings River later claimed by Joseph Yves Limantour.
The eleven square league grant was made to Manuel Castro (1823-1853) in 1843, although a deed to secure the ownership was not issued until 1846. Castro's father, Simeon Castro, owned Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo. Manuel Castro had been an Army captain under Governor Manuel Micheltorena. Castro had also served as prefect of the Northern District of California. Castro remained in Monterey and sent Ysidor Villa to Rancho Laguna de Tache as foreman.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was patented to Manuel Castro in 1866. A claim for two square leagues by Jeremiah Clark was rejected by the Public Land Commission.
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