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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rancho Nicasio
was a Mexican land grant of 56,807 acres (230 km2) granted to the Coast
Miwok indigenous people in 1835, located in the present-day Marin
County, California, a tract of land that stretched from San Geronimo to
Tomales Bay. Today, Nicasio, California is at the heart of this
location. In the mid 1830s, 80,000 acres (324 km2) was promised by
General Mariano Vallejo to the San Rafael Indians, whose land had been
co-opted by the Mission San Rafael. The land was granted by Mexican
Governor José Figueroa to the Coast Miwok of Marin County in 1835, but
the Miwok claim was rejected by the Public Land Commission in 1855. José
Calistro resecured a deed to 30 acres (0.1 km2) of the original rancho
at Halleck Creek in 1870, and became the chief leader of the native
community of Rancho Nicasio.
