High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rancho San Antonio, also known as the Peralta Grant, was a 44,800-acre (181 km2) land grant by Governor Pablo Vicente de Sol , the last Spanish governor of California, to Don Lu s Mar a Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Army and later, commissioner of the Pueblo of San Jos , in recognition of his forty years of service. The grant, issued on August 3, 1820, embraced the sites of the cities of San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, Berkeley, and Albany.
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