Editing Patterson, California (section)

==History==
The [[Rancho Del Puerto]] Mexican [[land grant]] to Mariano and Pedro Hernandez in 1844 by Governor [[Manuel Micheltorena]] extended east of the present-day Highway 33 to the [[San Joaquin River]]. The northern boundary was Del Puerto Creek and the southern boundary was just south of present-day Marshall Road.

Samuel G. Reed and Ruben S. Wade claimed the land on January 7, 1855. A patent encompassing the land grant was signed by President Abraham Lincoln. Reed and Wade received title to {{convert|13340|acre|km2|0}} on August 15, 1864. Reed and Wade then sold the grant to J. O. Eldredge on June 18, 1866, for $5,000. Mr. Eldredge held the title for only two months before selling it to John D. Patterson on August 14, 1866, for $5,400. John D. Patterson purchased additional land and, upon his death on March 7, 1902, a total of {{convert|18462|acre|km2|0}} were willed to Thomas W. Patterson and William W. Patterson, his estate executors, and other heirs. The land was sold to the Patterson Ranch Company on May 16, 1908, for the sum of $540,000 cash [[gold coin]]. Thomas W. Patterson subdivided the land into ranches of various sizes and plotted the design of the town of Patterson. Determined to make Patterson different from most, he modeled his town after the cities of [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Paris]], France, using a series of circles and radiating streets. Major streets were planted with palm, eucalyptus, and sycamore trees.

The Patterson Colony map was filed with the Stanislaus County Recorders office on December 13, 1909. Sales of the ranch properties and city lots commenced. Patterson was the third city in Stanislaus County to incorporate on December 22, 1919.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ci.patterson.ca.us/254/History|title=History |publisher=City of Patterson|access-date=November 5, 2019}}</ref> In May 1971, the chamber of commerce approved the title of "Apricot Capital of the World" for Patterson.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bettencourt |first=Craig |date=May 27, 2021 |title=Patterson's Past: 50 years ago- Patterson is now the self-proclaimed "Apricot Capital of the World" |url=https://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/patterson-s-past-50-years-ago--patterson-is-now-the-self-proclaimed-apricot-capital/article_41383250-be7b-11eb-a77c-1f6995272faf.html |newspaper=[[Patterson Irrigator]] |accessdate=May 29, 2021}}</ref>