Rancho Punta de la Concepcion
Rancho Punta de la Concepcion was a 24,992-acre (101.14 km2) Mexican land grant in the northern Santa Ynez Mountains, in present day Santa Barbara County, California. It was granted by Governor Juan Alvarado in 1837, to Anastacio Carrillo. The grant extended along the Pacific coast from Point Arguello south to Cojo Creek, just east of Point Conception.
The first European travelers to see Alta California were Spanish explorers of the 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo maritime expedition, who sailed up the coast from the Baja California Peninsula of colonial New Spain. Cabrillo found a sheltered anchorage on the south side of prominent point of land. In 1602 Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno sailed along the California coast, and gave the point its current name, Point Conception. Spanish ships associated with the Manila Galleon trade probably made emergency stops along the coast during the next 167 years, but no permanent settlements were established.
The first European land exploration of the upper Spanish Las Californias Province was by the Portolá expedition, led by Gaspar de Portolà. They camped on 26 August 26 1769 near a creek that reaches the ocean at a sheltered cove previously used by Cabrillo. From a high vantage, they recognized the point beyond as the one named by Vizcaíno. As at nearly all of the coastal creeks in this region, the explorers found a native Chumash village, that subsisted primarily by ocean fishing.
Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, who accompanied the expedition, noted that the village chief had a lame leg, so the soldiers gave the village the name "Rancheria del Cojo" ("cojo" is Spanish for "lame man"). The cove is still known as Cojo Bay.
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