The 3,217 acres of Rincon de los Bueyes was a relatively small land grant for a Spanish concession at the time and it was surrounded by five different ranchos: Ranchos Las Cienegas and Rancho Paso de la Tijera were both located to the east; Rancho La Ballona was to the west; Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres was to the northwest and Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was to the northeast.

Spain lost Alta California to Mexico in 1822 and in 1826, the new Mexican government began making Spanish land grants permanent so that the title to the land would be vested in the person occupying the land. This system was intended to promote settlement of the city and hence, this outpost of Mexico could be further stabilized and colonized. On July 10, 1843, the Spanish grant originally issued to Bernardo Higuera was confirmed by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to the family and friends to whom Bernardo ceded the land in 1834.

The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 and with that, California came into the Union as a state. The name of the town El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora, La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula was shortened to simply “ Los Angeles” in 1850. The terms of the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo dictated that the land grants made under the earlier Mexican and Spanish regimes were to be recognized by the Union, provided that landowners could provide proof of ownership through formal written documents and maps confirming ownership. Many land grantees and their descendants were unable to prove ownership or lost the land to court costs or the new American system of taxation. The Higueras were fortunate however and after filing a claim for Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes with the United States Land Commission in 1852, Bernardo’s descendants’ claim to the rancho was approved and American confirmation to the grand was issued in 1862, during the Civil War.

Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes was subdivided multiple times and today, the land that was once known as Rincon de Los Bueyes is comprised of Beverlywood, Castle Heights, Crestview, Regent Square, a portion of Palms, the northeast corner of Culver City and a section of Baldwin Hills.