Malibu, CA news and local guide

In 1802 the area became part of Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit, a 13,000-acre land grant, which passed intact to Frederick Hastings Rindge in 1891. He and his wife, Rhoda May Knight Rindge, guarded their land closely. To block a Southern Pacific line through the ranch, Rindge, relying on federal rules that barred a railroad from condemning land to build tracks paralleling an existing line, began his own railroad, and after his death May built the Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway, running 15 miles west from Carbon Canyon past Point Dume. She hired guards to turn away trespassers and fought long court battles, but in 1929 the state won its case and built what is now the Pacific Coast Highway, and she was forced to divide her property and begin selling and leasing lots. Sources Wikipedia: Malibu, California