Castroville, California Castroville Castroville Sign and La Scuola on Merritt Street Castroville Sign and La Scuola on Merritt Street Location in Monterey County and the state of California Location in Monterey County and the state of California Castroville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States.
The site of the improve was originally part of Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo, a 30,901-acre (125.05 km2) Mexican territory grant given in 1844 by Manuel Micheltorena, Governor of Alta California, to Maria Antonia Pico de Castro. After the 1848 cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, Juan Bautista Castro, son of Maria Antonia Pico de Castro, established Castroville in 1863.
Castroville is known for its artichoke crop and for the annual Castroville Artichoke Festival, dominant to its nickname as the "Artichoke Center of the World".
Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo was a 30,901 acre Mexican territory grant given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Maria Antonia Pico de Castro (Juan Bautista Castro's Mother.) The region around Castroville was crisscrossed by a network of sloughs and swamps.
Merritt, the editor of the journal Castroville Argus (1869 1880) announced, "We will give alternate lots, on any part of the town site we still own to any person who will build as practicable, a good comfortable dwelling home on his lot.
Juan Bautista Castro would run for county supervisor for the district.
Castroville now had inhabitants and a community.
There were two hotels, five stores, stables, three saloons, flour mill, two blacksmith shops, journal (Castroville Argus), postal service, telegraph office, drug store, tailor shop, shoe-maker, two churches, a school home, tin shop, and a brewery. Juan Bautista Castro had ambitions of Castroville becoming the new Station Freight Depot.
Castroville's asking price for the territory was high.
Salinas offered the territory for free, and was chose over Castroville.
Castroville was still considered an meaningful stop, serving as the "point of juncture of the road from Monterey, and from Soledad to San Francisco." Joseph Merritt (Publisher of the Castroville Argus) was born April 19, 1851.
He was publisher for the Monterey Democrat and the Castroville Argus.
Merritt (Editor of the Castroville Argus) was born June 8, 1855.
He was the editor of the Castroville Argus, Castroville Gazette, and the Monterey County Herald.
1878 he was in the mercantile business, propel supervisor of Monterey County from the First District.
"In 1860 the Chinese contractors had established a existence here in Castroville.
The Monterey County Assessor listed fifteen Chinese companies farming sugar beets in the region of Castroville.
The Chinese populace in Castroville continue to expanded as well.
Many Chinese contractors and company owners moved to Castroville.
When Watsonville's Chinatown burned down, the contractors also moved to Castroville.
The Chinese contractors began to leave the Monterey Bay Area.
California's first artichoke fields interval south of San Francisco, near the town of Half Moon Bay, in the early 1920s. In 1922, Andrew Molera planted the first artichoke shoots in Castroville.
Within four years, there were over 50 growers and 12,000 acres of artichokes burgeoning in Castroville, and in the Monterey Bay area. In 1924 Daniel Pieri, Amerigo Del Chiaro, Angelo Del Chiaro, Alfred Tottino, and James Bellone formed the "California Artichoke and Vegetable Growers Corporation." Castroville's first Artichoke Queen was Mrs.
Hebert was born in Carmel and interval up in Castroville.
Marilyn Monroe was given the honorary title of Artichoke Queen in 1947 amid a visit to the Monterey Bay Area.
The Castroville Water District was established in 1952 to replace private wells.
The Castroville Community Service Area (providing storm sewer, sanitation sewers, street maintenance and recreational services) was created in 1962. The two consolidated in 2008.
At the time of the consolidation , the Castroville CSA encompassed North Monterey County High School and Moro Cojo, a subdivision in Prunedale which receives separate water service. "Salinas River National Wildlife Refuge" is south of Castroville.
Salinas, CA is 14 miles south of Castroville.
Based on Koppen climate classification, Castroville has a cool-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb) and a several microclimates, resulting in mild winters and cool summers.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Castroville had a populace of 6,481.
The Enumeration reported that 6,467 citizens (99.8% of the population) lived in homeholds, 14 (0.2%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 1,470 homeholds, out of which 931 (63.3%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 866 (58.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 273 (18.6%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 161 (11.0%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 2,169 citizens (33.5%) under the age of 18, 888 citizens (13.7%) aged 18 to 24, 1,876 citizens (28.9%) aged 25 to 44, 1,132 citizens (17.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 416 citizens (6.4%) who were 65 years of age or older.
2,626 citizens (40.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 3,841 citizens (59.3%) lived in rental housing units.
There were 1,434 homeholds out of which 58.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 65.2% were married couples living together, 17.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 10.7% were non-families.
California Highways 1, 156, and 183 intersect in Castroville.
Highway 183 joins Castroville to Salinas.
Merritt Street serves as Castroville chief street.
Many enhance roads, low-income housing projects, and other publicly owned facilities have been funded by the Castroville Redevelopment Agency that was established by then-Monterey County Supervisor Marc Del Piero in the mid-1980s.
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