Jennifer Keil, M.A.
Founder of 70 Degrees and Director of Moulton Museum
San Juan Capistrano Docent Society February 17, 2022
70 Degrees Education
Our consortium of scholars have created a series of curriculum for primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. We have written lesson plans for museums. Our primary sources are provided to state, district, city, and institutional level organizations.
We develop community oral history programs. We provide internships for university students. Our education program is in development for the Moulton Museum in Orange County, CA.
Visit 70degrees.org/educate to learn more.
Jennifer and Cindy at SOHA at
OHA 2019 in Salt Lake City
Past President and CA Delegate of SOHA
California Curriculum and Resources
- State standards
Information that defines the knowledge, concepts, and skills students should acquire at each grade level.
Rancho Niguel Timeline
1842- “El Rancho Niguel de Los Alisos comprising 13,316 acre”
1848- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with Mexican government that ended the war with the U.S. This land included Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, which was about 55% of former Mexican territory.
1864- The climate was bone dry.... There was no moisture and our cattle died off in very great numbers ... Before the year 1864 had passed away, there was perfect devastation. Such a thing was never before known in California.” -Juan Forster, Rancho Santa Margarita
Rancho Niguel Timeline
1874- “The year 1874 in El Toro found the Serranos still owning and occupying the eleven thousand acre ranch which had been granted them by the Mexican Government, and which eventually came into the possession of Dwight Whiting. Rancho Niguel had been granted by Juan B. Alvarado, Mexican Governor of California, to Juan Avila and his sister Concepcion, widow of a certain Pedro Sanchez, on June 21, 1842. From them it passed, sometimes in its entirety, other times in parcels, through many hands, among them the Yorbas, but by 1874 the greater portion of it was owned by Cyrus B. Rawson, from whom father eventually bought it. Jonathan E. Bacon had also come into possession of sixteen hundred acres of it.”
1894 -“Father purchased Rawson’s seventeen thousand acres, and a few months later Mr. Daguerre bought a third interest in it. In 1899 they bought Bacon’s piece, and from time to time they acquired other bits of property, not belonging to the original grant, until the ranch now comprises between twenty-one and twenty-two thousand acres.” -Charlotte Moulton, Orange County History Series, Volume 2 (1932)
1900s - L. F. Moulton & Co. matures into a 21,723 acre enterprise.
The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County California, Published 1955
Juan Avila’s Rancho Niguel
“Don Juan Avila, the wealthy resident of San Juan Capistrano, and his sister Dona Concepcion, raised sheep on their Rancho Niguel. Avila built his first home here before building his large residence in San Juan Capistrano.”
California 1850: A Snapshot in Time, 46.
Moulton Museum
Physical Exhibits at sites incorporated from 22,000 Rancho Niguel
moultonmuseum.org/exhibits
Moulton Ranch Roundup, Circa 1940 Source: 2017.13.193
Opening July 1, 2022 in Laguna Hills, CA
1874: Into the West
Arrival story and development of early OC
Featuring our Wells Fargo Museum Collection and in collaboration with California museums for loan agreements
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD GIANT 5000 TRAIN ENGINE
The Art of Nellie Gail Moulton
View our digital exhibit via our Matterport design at or our sample tour video here
Please read the Stu News and Laguna Beach Indy articles.
Aliso Viejo Ranch
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California Rangeland Trust
Jane Barnes (Moulton Ranch) and Tony Moiso (O’neill Ranch)
Woody Barnes at Julian Ranch
Moulton Family Oral History
Opportunities
70 Degrees Internships
Moulton Museum Volunteer Positions: Docents, Classroom Educators, Advisory Council
Regional Conferences:
Southwest Oral History Association Conference from April 1-3, 2022 at UNLV and Zoom
Oral History Association from October 19-22, 2022 at Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles
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Jennifer and Cindy Keil at Aliso Viejo Ranch