Spanish And Indian Place Names of California: Their Meaning And Their Romance

Sanchez Nellie Van De Grift

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Mesquite (a native shrub of the locust variety).
Milpitas (Kttle patches of com). This word is said to be the diminutive of milpa (a patch of maize or com), but in that case must have referred to com cultivated by Mexicans, since the Cali- fornia Indians raised no cultivated crops, but subsisted entirely on the natural products of the land. Milpitas is a village in Santa Clara County, which for some imexplained reason, has come to be used as a term of derision, the ^^jimiping off place of creat...ion." It was probably the name of a land grant.
La Mirada (the view). See page 80.
Miramar (sea- view), is the name of a post town in San Diego County and of a summer resort near Santa Barbara.
Miramontes (a surname). Candelario Mira- montes, a native of Mexico, was the grantee of the Pilarcitos Rancho in '41.
Mision Vieja, or La Paz (old mission or the peace). Land grant.
Mision Vieja de la Purisima (old mission of the Immaculate Conception).
391 PLACE NAMES OF CALIFORNIA Mocho Peak, in Santa Clara County.

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