Fairbanks christened his land “Rancho Zorro” after the movie “The Mark of Zorro,” which he was filming when he discovered this piece of paradise.Įqually as enchanted by this peaceful enclave, Portland, Oregon principal designer Joelle Nesen of Maison, Inc. and his wife Mary Pickford, began to flock there to get away from their fans. Given in a Mexican land grant in 1841 by Governor Pico of Alta California, to Juan Osuna, the first Mayor of the Pueblo of San Diego, the land did not become a network of exclusive country estates until 1922, when the likes of such Hollywood icons as Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. In historic Rancho Santa Fe, “This where thousands of eucalyptus trees sway in near tropical breezes (a failed attempt by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to grow a crop of hardwood suitable for railroad ties), life travels at a very idyllic speed.
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