San Luis Obispo County History

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara,
San Luis Obispo, and Ventura, California
by Yda Addis Storke
Published in 1891 in Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Co.


NIPOMO 

is a village of recent growth, on the line of the Pacific Coast Railway, nine miles south 
of Arroyo Grande. This is upon the Nipomo grant, made by the: Mexican government 
to William G. Dana in 1838, and recently subdivided and in part sold by the grantee's 
heirs. The grant was one of the first made in this county, and as may be presumed the 
first selection was an exceedingly choice tract. The village is but two years of age, and so 
rapidly is it growing that an estimate of its population is hardly likely to approach accu- 
racy, although it is estimated at 700. There are two hotels, two large stores, a newspaper, 
the Nipomo News, and many handsome residences. The village is well supplied with 
water liy a system of water- works, with reticulation pipes through all the houses.