Martina Castro and her husband Michael Lodge received the Rancho Soquel as a Mexican Land Grant in 1833. Ten years later, they were granted the Soquel Augmentation Rancho, extending from the beach to Loma Prieta (Dark Mountain). The total size of the two ranchos was more than 34,000 acres. The Lodge family lived in a small adobe on Hill Street in what is now Capitola. The home and 121 acre ranch site was sold to Augustus Noble in 1856 and became a part of the Noble farm. Family members posed for this 1903 photograph.