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What was Johnson Ranch?
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
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David K
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A big ranch made by the same family that created Rancho Meling in the mountains. It is still there and a descendant joined Baja Nomad even.
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | | A big ranch made by the same family that created Rancho Meling in the mountains. It is still there and a descendant joined Baja Nomad even.
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David K
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I wrote about the Johnson's and their ranches in a recent Baja Bound article... Here that is: https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/san_pedr...
My other articles are in the link (below in my signature): https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/
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For you Baja history buffs here is a little info I dug up. The man that drew the mining map pictured above, Richard Stephens, worked as a surveyor
for the International Company (later called the Mexican Land and Colonization Company) at the turn of the century. He was a Canadian Engineer.
Stephens drew the original plot map for the City of Ensenada. Will attempt to attach an image of it but if it does not show you can Google it under
Map of Colony Carlos Pacheco. (Or maybe DK can post it happy birthday by the way) You can see his name on the bottom of the plot map. He laid out
the streets of Ensenada that are still in use today. A history of the colonization of Ensenada that references Mr Stephens is here:
https://irsc.sdsu.edu/docs/pubs/Pinera_Ensenada.pdf
And a link to the Ensenada plot map is here:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fp1.liveau...
[Edited on 9-19-2018 by bajaric]
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David K
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Great find 'bajaric'... Thank you for sharing those links!
There is some fun reading in that one pdf!
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Hi David. Great maps. I too have the 1963 “Sportsman” map as some call it. How were you able to date it as mine has no dates at least i can find.
Michael
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Hi Mickey, we have decoded the old AAA dating system and there is actually a thread here on Nomad that explains it... I will dig it up later for you.
EDIT:
On the bottom of the map's cover side is a code:
C-1268
The center two numbers are reversed so 26 = 62 (1962)
The first number is the day (1) and the last number is the month (8) or August.
So the map is dated Aug. 1, 1962.
The thread on the AAA map codes with more old maps in it is from 2015: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=79827
[Edited on 11-24-2018 by David K]
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Cool maps . Interesting Tiajuana was spelled Tia Juana.
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La Bocana is not even in existence in the older maps you have! That always astounds me.
This is a wonderful thread...the amount of growth is mind-boggling.
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La Bocana didn't exist way far back in time, plus in the 50s and 60s, the Auto Club did not do all the roads for their small road log they made then.
They may not have even driven beyond Punta Abreojos. As you can see on the '62 map, only El Coyote (Campo Rene now) is shown as populated and not
Punta Abreojos where the road is shown as ending. We know from Howard Gulick's great maps and road logs of 1956-1962 that there was indeed a road
beyond Punta Abreojos and populated places, including La Bocana...
Blanca, here is the 1955 auto club map and it seems the road, coast data in your area is identical to what they used in 1962...
[Edited on 11-24-2018 by David K]
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Here is an old photo of the flour mill warehouse (Old Mill) at San Quintin, where the railroad began... It was going to near Yuma, just as the new
planned railroad from Punta Colonet will do. |
So cool.
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David K
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Yep... maps are windows to the past!
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i would have bet it was spelled Tijuana
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