Rancho San Lucas
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Rancho San Lucas
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| Location | 1 3⁄4 mi. SW of jct. of Paris Valley Rd. and Rancho San Lucas entry rd., San Lucas, California |
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| Coordinates | 36°2′34″N 121°0′27″W / 36.04278°N 121.00750°WCoordinates: 36°2′34″N 121°0′27″W / 36.04278°N 121.00750°W |
| Area | 3,600 acres (1,500 ha) |
| Built | 1865 |
| Architect | Trescony, Catherine |
| Architectural style | Transverse adobe barn |
| NRHP Reference # | 91000530 |
| Added to NRHP | May 06, 1991 |
Rancho San Lucas was a 8,875-acre (35.92 km2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Rafael Estrada. The grant extended along the west bank of the Salinas River south of present-day San Lucas.
José Rafael Estrada, son of José Raymundo Estrada and Josefa Maria Vallejo de Alvarado, received the grant of the San Lucas for two square leagues in 1842. Rafael Estrada was a half brother of Governor Juan Alvarado.
Estrada sold Rancho San Lucas to James McKinley. Captain James McKinley, a Scottish sailor, arrived at Monterey in the 1820s and became a successful trader. In 1843, he was involved in a trading business partnership with Captain John Paty and Henry D. Fitch. He served as an agent for both Thomas O. Larkin and his half brother, Captain John B.R. Cooper. McKinley married Carmen Amesti, daughter of José Amesti, who was the grantee of Rancho Los Corralitos. McKinley was also the patentee of Rancho Moro y Cayucos.
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 for Rancho San Lucas was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was patented to James McKinley in 1882.
McKinley sold the Rancho San Lucas in 1862 to Alberto Trescony, during a drought that devastated California cattle ranches. Alberto Trescony (1814–1892), born in Italy, arrived in Monterey in 1842. A tin smith, he became wealthy enough manufacturing pans for California Gold Rush miners to begin investing in real estate.
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