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Perea Property / Raggio Ranch
San Francisquito Canyon


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Charles Raggio, who with Juan Bautista Suraco (aka Suracco) operated a store that catered to gold miners in Placeritas Canyon, acquired this ranch from the Perea (aka Pereida) family in about 1880. Some of the buildings in this photograph, taken in 1887, had been used as a stage stop as early as 1854. The ranch buildings were destroyed in the St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928.

What we don't know is exactly where this was. If you know the property address, please contact us.


Historian A.B. Perkins writes:

This picture is of particular interest because either the building at the lower left, an adobe covered with board and batt, or another similar structure (an extension of the building at lower left but not here visible), was the Stage Station known as "Moore's," later on known as Hollands, or Hollandsville, dating from about 1854. It was the first Stage Stop northerly from Lyon Station in Newhall.

Raggio's was a typical canyon ranch of its date. The larger building, at right, housed the Winery and Store. The grapevine in back of the Winery was 48 inches in diameter. The ranch, as a whole, was a vineyard. In front of the home (at left), Mrs. Raggio can barely be discerned. Some of the five Raggio brothers are visible on their horses.

Charles Raggio's job might be described as a local buyer in the Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clarita Valley) of just about everything from honey to beef, which he resold in Los Angeles.

Photograph originally from Security First National Bank. Story from Frank LeBrun, 1966.


AP2319: 9600 dpi jpeg from copy print.
PEREA & RAGGIO PROPERTY, SAN FRANCISQUITO CANYON


Perea-Ruiz Cemetery

Perea in Pico:
Story 1 (1918)
Story 2 (1918)
Story 3 (2004)

Story (2000): Perea in San Francisquito


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Raggio Ranch ~1940s

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Raggio Ranch ~1940s

Louis Raggio Obituary 1960


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