First called Johnsonville, Bear Valley had a population of 3,000 including Chinese, Cornish and Mexicans during 1850-60 when Col. John C Fremont's Pine Tree and Josephine mines were producing. Fremont's elegant hotel "Oso House", built with lumber . . . — — Map (db m129139) HM
Built originally in the late 1840’s to serve the Mexican community as a cantina and fandango hall, the succeeding Jeffery Hotel has been warmly praised in the memoirs of the 49ers and travelers.
The hotel is among the oldest owned and . . . — — Map (db m301070) HM
Started in 1850 by outcast Mexicans from nearby Quartzburg and given the name Hornitos, meaning “little ovens”, from the dome like rock and mud bake-ovens being used here by some Germans.
The whites soon gained predominance, the population . . . — — Map (db m46904) HM
Historic Jail Museum • History of 1849 • Relics
Gold Rush Day Displays
One of the Nations Most Famous Ghost Towns early population 15,000. Here was the first Wells Fargo Express Office in county. $40000 in gold sent to Mint daily by armed . . . — — Map (db m46936) HM
Hornitos, or Hornitas, as it was called in the old days, was established in 1852 when Quartzburg would not allow gambling and other related past times in town. Many Mexican miners left and came downstream and formed Hornitos. This site was on the . . . — — Map (db m301076) HM
Oldest building in Merced County built in 1848 by Francisco Perez Pacheco and his son on Rancho San Luis Gonzaga. Later a stopping place for vaqueros while driving cattle to the gold fields. Eventually became part of Rancho Santa Rita. Long owned by . . . — — Map (db m247234) HM
On June 18, 1805, Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga, on his first exploratory journey into the San Joaquin Valley traversed this pass and recorded it.
Since then it has been trail, toll road, stagecoach road, and freeway -- the principal route between . . . — — Map (db m229397) HM
First Marriage in California took place at this Mission between Juan Maria Ruiz of El Fuerte, Sonora, Mexico, 25 years of age, and Margarita de Cortona, 22, a Salinan woman of Mission San Antonio, on the sixteenth of May in the year of Our Lord 1773 — — Map (db m51561) HM
This historical property was placed on the National Register of historic places on June 7, 1974. Please do not damage or in any way deface this property.
Violator Will Be Prosecuted
US Government Property — — Map (db m64416) HM
La Gloria School was first organized in 1873. The present schoolhouse was built in 1887 and remained in continuous use until 1960. Orginally located southeast of Gonzales, the schoolhouse was move to San Lorenzo Park in 1980. La Gloria . . . — — Map (db m64336) HM
Founded by Father Junipero Serra July 14, 1774. Most picturesque setting. First mass was celebrated in presence of one Indian. Later congregation grew to a thousand neophytes. Famous for its fine horses and expert vaqueros. — — Map (db m154381) HM
Built in the 1830’s by Juan Bautista Alvarado, first Monterey-born governor of California. Originally a three room adobe with a tule roof. — — Map (db m63350) HM
One of the best examples of Monterey Colonial architecture in California. Finished about 1850 by Jose Amesti who came from Spain in 1822. — — Map (db m63449) HM
Built about 1820 by Don Antonio Buelna, a Mexican soldier and school teacher. Senora Hillaria Buelna held the first school for girls in Monterey here. — — Map (db m63568) HM
Built for an English blacksmith in 1840, and sold to Don Florencio Serrano, a schoolteacher, in 1846. The Monterey History & Art Association was founded here in 1931.
Lara-Soto Adobe * Up and to the right
Capitular Hall * Towards the Bay
Cell . . . — — Map (db m63312) HM
Home of Gabriel de la Torre, public official of the Mexican and American period. Believed to be the first Federal Court in Monterey — — Map (db m63427) HM
Native of Monterey, Governor of California under Mexican rule December 20, 1836 - December 20,1842. During his administration the increasing influx of Americans, and the Russian settlement at Fort Ross, began to be regarded as serious problems. . . . — — Map (db m25055) HM
Finished in 1849 by Jacinto Rodriguez, member of California’s First Contitutional Convention. Later residence of Antonio Osio, Collector of the Port of Monterey under Governor Alvarado. — — Map (db m63519) HM
The Royal Chapel of San Carlos de Borromeo, founded June 3, 1770, is the only remaining Presidio chapel in California.
Madariaga Adobe - Follow Church St. to Abrego
Cell Phone Tour (831) 718-9123 enter 710 — — Map (db m143524) HM
Mexican era home of Jose Mariano Estrada family
Later became early inn of Monterey
Wooden third story added 1881
Prominent hostelry until 1961
Restored by Monterey Savings 1964 — — Map (db m63516) HM
Built between 1844 and 1848 by José Eusebio Boronda, this is an outstanding example of a Mexican era rancho adobe. Virtually unaltered since its construction, it shows many features of the "Monterey Colonial" style which resulted from the fusion of . . . — — Map (db m60397) HM
"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect of other cultures."
Cesar E. Chavez (1927-1993)
Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American Labor leader & cofounder of the United Farm Worker (UFW). Cesar Chavez was . . . — — Map (db m26874) HM
This mission, founded October 9, 1791 by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, ministered to the Indians of the Salinas Valley. Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga died here July 24, 1814 and was buried in the chapel. Prosperous in its early years, . . . — — Map (db m27217) HM
[1998]
With the Santa Lucia, Gabilan mountain ranges and Pinnacles National Monument as the backdrop, Soledad has a rich history rooted in the original Spanish Mission land grants of early California. Soledad's original agricultural base was . . . — — Map (db m41124) HM
About 200 feet north of this site, a short distance from the Napa River ford, stood Don Salvador Vallejo’s Casa Las Trancas, headquarters for his Rancho Napa— a land grant of over 3000 acres. Established in the 1840’s and known as “The . . . — — Map (db m84129) HM
Don Cayetano Juarez, (1809-1883) was given Rancho Tulocay in 1840 by General Mariano Vallejo for his decade of service to the government of Mexico, as a soldier and as mayordomo at Sonoma. He married Maria de Jesus Higuera in 1835 and they raised 11 . . . — — Map (db m123859) HM
This home of early Spanish Californians, erected in the 1820's, once served as an "estancia" or station for mission herdsmen. It was dedicated in 1963 for public use by the Segerstrom Family and restored by the City of Costa Mesa. It is jointly . . . — — Map (db m50306) HM
During the Spanish and Mexican rule of California, the governors encouraged the settlement of the territory by establishing large land grants. Many of these were later turned into Ranchos that were devoted to raising cattle and sheep.
Orange . . . — — Map (db m188705) HM
Established in 1923 with six streets on lots sized 50 by 300. A complete community with stores, recreation facilities, and churches. (Holy Family Mission still exists). — — Map (db m59056) HM
In 1944, Frank and Dolores Lucero purchased 40 acres at this intersection. They previously farmed in Seal Beach. Dolores didn't want to leave the house so it was moved to this location while Dolores and a few kids were inside. — — Map (db m59554) HM
When the Spanish army and missionaries came to California in 1769, they made a route, El Camino Real, for travel between missions they established, stretching from San Diego to Sonoma. In the early 1900s, a group of women's clubs, among others . . . — — Map (db m189668) HM
Uphill from this marker once stood the Northam Ranch House, a pivotal landmark in the history of Huntington Beach.
Originally part of a vast Spanish land grant known as the Rancho Las Bolsas, the 1400 acres surrounding this hillcrest were . . . — — Map (db m213963) HM
Prior to European contact, California's inhabitants established one of the most densely populated regions in North America. When Spanish explorers arrive, bringing with them a variety of diseases, a catastrophic wave of illness and death spreads . . . — — Map (db m195050) HM
Planting, cultivating, harvesting crops and maintaining livestock on the spewing Irvine Ranch was no easy task. The success of the ranch was due in large part to the workforce of superintendent foremen, vaqueros and farm hands who performed the . . . — — Map (db m203548) HM
The Bath House is typical of the 1930s construction used in outbuildings throughout Irvine Ranch. Constructed in 1931, it replaced the restroom facilities within the Bunkhouse when it was converted from an open dormitory to individual rooms. . . . — — Map (db m203552) HM
The land that today includes the cities of Laguna Hills, Laguna Woods, and a portion of Laguna Niguel, was once called Rancho Niguel. This 13,000 acre rancho, named after a Native American village located along Aliso Creek, was once owned by Don . . . — — Map (db m149732) HM
The branding iron depicted in the City Seal was applied to Juan Avila's cattle as early as 1833. The entire seal is surrounded by a braided leather lariat, which together with the Avila Brand, recalls the area's rancho history.
The early . . . — — Map (db m299670) HM
1769 - Portola Expedition enters what is now Orange County.
1821 - California under Mexican Rule.
1842 - Rancho Canada de los Alisos granted to Don Jose Serrano; future site of Heritage Hill Historical Park.
1850 - California . . . — — Map (db m195046) HM
State of California Historic Landmark No. 199, La Casa de Adobe de Jose Serrano. Home of Jose Serrano, original grantee of Rancho Canada de los Alisos. Restored A.D. 1932. — — Map (db m50117) HM
This spring and the sycamore trees mark the area of an adobe house and outbuilding built in the 1840s by José Serrano, whose Rancho Cañada de los Alisos stretched to the north. Within a short distance were the two adobes of Juan Avila's Rancho . . . — — Map (db m154351) HM
In 1769 Gasper de Portolá led a group of Spanish soldiers on a thousand-mile march from Baja California to San Francisco. His purpose was to locate the ports of San Diego and Monterey and to establish a series of churches and military posts. The . . . — — Map (db m188706) HM
This site was part of Rancho Canada de Los Alisos, a land grant given to Don Jose Serrano by Mexican Governor Pio Pico on May 27, 1846.
Two historical plaques are located at the park's western edge. — — Map (db m188711) HM
The peak before you is named for the outlaw Juan Flores.
Flores led a gang of bandits that terrorized this area in the
late 1850's. In January 1857, the gang murdered a shopkeeper
in San Juan Capistrano. While in pursuit of the gang, LA County . . . — — Map (db m148311) HM
Lured to California by gold, Irish immigrant James Irvine instead made a fortune in real estate. Near the end of the Civil War, he and his partners bought two failing ranchos — one included the Upper Newport Bay estuary totaling 96,000 acres. . . . — — Map (db m148657) HM
Juan Pablo Grijalva, a Spanish soldier, came to California with the Anza Expedition in 1776. On this hill he built one of the first adobes in what is now Orange County. In 1801 he petitioned for use of the land that became the Rancho Santiago de . . . — — Map (db m50040) HM
Portola camped on bank of Santa Ana River in 1769. Jose Antonio Yorba, member of expedition, later returned to Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. El Camino Real crossed river in this vicinity. Place was designated Santa Ana by travelers, and known by . . . — — Map (db m50302) HM
On the mesa one-half mile south of here the original Mission of San Juan Capistrano was founded Nov. 1, 1776.
Commemorated El Viaje De Portola April 1968 — — Map (db m188901) HM
San Clemente Island is the southernmost of the eight California Channel islands. The 56 square miles island received its named in November 1602 when Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino sailed passed it while mapping the region. It represents . . . — — Map (db m190450) HM
May date back to 1794. It was part of two buildings known as Hacienda Aguilar. This adobe is associated with Don Blas Aguilar, the last Alcalde (Mayor) of the Mexican period. — — Map (db m51943) HM
This building façade was built in 1938 by Nick and Canuta Arbonies as a home and restaurant which replaced an earlier building that was the first train stationmaster's house and office. The Arbonies were both born in the Basque Navarra region of . . . — — Map (db m307886) HM
The Forster family moved to San Juan Capistrano in 1844 when English man John Forster bought the San Juan Mission and the surrounding area at auction from Pio Pico, the last of the Mexican Governors of California. Forster, then known as Don Juan . . . — — Map (db m188910) HM
This 1830 structure is typical of San Juan Capistrano adobes of this period; thick walls and a wood shingle roof. The house was purchased by Domingo Oyharzabal in 1880 and occupied by his family for over 100 years. — — Map (db m51939) HM
As Governor of Baja California Portola was the military leader of the Spanish expedition into Alta California, which camped near the future site of the Mission on July 23, 1769 — — Map (db m199165) HM
Yorba was one of the 66 Catalonian volunteer soldiers in the Spanish expedition, and later built the Miguel Yorba and Domingo Yorba Adobes. — — Map (db m199166) HM
Avila, "El Rico," was the original grantee of Rancho Niguel, owner of the Avila Adobe, and a first trustee for the San Juan Elementary School District in the 1850's. — — Map (db m199167) HM
Forster bought Mission San Juan Capistrano at public auction in 1844 and later owned 260,000 acres in Orange and San Diego Counties. — — Map (db m199169) HM
While reading this plaque, you are facing the historic El Camino Real, also known as "the King's Highway or "The Royal Road".
Originating in 1769, the trail got its name from the Spanish monarch who directed the establishment of a chain of . . . — — Map (db m188641) HM
A Spanish soldier station at San Juan Capistrano in the late 1700s. He was awarded a land grant in the San Juan Capistrano Area which remained in his family for 10 generations. — — Map (db m199168) HM
Built in the 1840's by Manuel Garcia, it originally had a second story over only half of the ground floor. In 1880 the remaining space was covered by a second floor and a balcony was added. It was a post office in the 1870's, a hotel from 1880 to . . . — — Map (db m149789) HM
Historic Town Center Park
Today the San Juan Capistrano down town and Mission San Juan Capistrano are situated on the site of the Juaneño village of Acjachema. History explains that in 1769 the first Spanish exploratory expedition, led . . . — — Map (db m51947) HM
In 1776, Father Junipero Serra founded Mission San Juan Capistrano. The land upon which Plaza Del Obispo is built was used by the mission to grow fruits and vegetables. In the 1800s, under private ownership, walnut trees were planted here. In the . . . — — Map (db m188547) HM
Jose Dolores Garcia was a prominent citizen of San Juan Capistrano who was
of Juaneno Indian and Spanish descent. In 1862, he married Maria Refugia Yorba
at the Mission. He promised her a new and unique house. After extensive research on horseback . . . — — Map (db m188929) HM
Ortega was the scout who blazed the trails for the 1769 Spanish expedition from San Diego to Sonoma, and discovered San Francisco Bay. — — Map (db m199145) HM
Like much of San Juan Capistrano, the Los Rios Street Historic District and surrounding area was home to Native Americans of the Nation before San Juan Capistrano was established in 1776. The first adobe home for Mission neophytes and soldiers were . . . — — Map (db m188923) HM
The two furnaces at this site, circa 1790's, are the oldest existing metalworking structures in California. They were used for the production of wrought iron, thereby introducing the natives living here to the Metal Age. Previously, only skills . . . — — Map (db m307668) HM
The cobble foundation is a replica of the original wall foundation which surrounded the gardens and orchard of the Mission San Juan Capistrano. A portion of the foundation has been preserved beneath this replica. The garden and orchard where . . . — — Map (db m188921) HM
"Jewel of the Missions" founded on November 1, 1776 by father Junipero Serra, most renown and most beautiful of the California Missions, Quaint little Serra Chapel is California's oldest building still in use. The magnificent ruins of the Great . . . — — Map (db m149788) HM
Constructed in 1794 as one of forty adobes built to house mission Indians. Named for Polonia Montanez, a nineteenth century resident. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Dunivin. Preserved by San Juan Capistrano Historical Society. Restored in 1981 by . . . — — Map (db m148348) HM
Situated below this hill, directly below the hotel, is the Pablo Pryor Adobe-Hide House. Built perhaps as early as 1790, it is possibly the oldest standing adobe in California. During the Rancho period, it was used for storing cattle hide from the . . . — — Map (db m189449) HM
Dick O'Neill 'Uncle Richard' to family and friends contributed significantly to the life of Capistrano Valley. A sixth generation 'Californio', he was an owner
of Rancho Mission Viejo and of the vast Rancho Santa Margarita y Flores, the 'great . . . — — Map (db m188927) HM
Built in 1794 for Feliciano Rios, a
Spanish soldier based at the San Juan
Capistrano Mission, it is the oldest
home continuously occupied by one
family in the state of California. — — Map (db m148345) HM
Sergeant Jose Francisco Ortega was the chief Scout for the Gaspar de Portola exploratory expedition in 1769. While exploring a route for Portola on their way to Monterey Bay, he was the first non-Native American to discover Capistrano Valley. Nearby . . . — — Map (db m188649) HM
Antonio Valenzuela, early pioneer of the town of San Juan Capistrano, built the adobe in the early 1840s, probably on the ruins of a mission Indian adobe dating to the 1790s. Later Valenzuela family members worked as local cowboys or vaqueros. The . . . — — Map (db m149787) HM
In memory of Thomas Anthony 'Tony' Forster, El Presidente of the San Juan Capistrano Historical Society from 1991 to 2007. It was through his vision that these grounds were dedicated to the development of four houses to reflect the various . . . — — Map (db m188925) HM
The first inhabitants of San Juan Capistrano were the Acjachemen. These Native Americans lived in what we know today as Orange County. Some of the tribe's descendants work here at Zoomars.
In 1776, the Historic District was part of the . . . — — Map (db m188924) HM
The California Mission Bell commemorates the route of El Camino Real. This bell sits near the crossroads of the summer and winter route from Mission San Juan Capistrano to Mission San Gabriel Archangel. — — Map (db m188551) HM
In 1857, the Whitney’s arrival in Rocklin signaled the start of the Spring Valley Ranch. In the early 1900’s another important chapter of Rocklin’s agricultural history began with the arrival of Japanese and Spanish immigrants.
Both the . . . — — Map (db m243176) HM
In this valley a conflict between the culture of the Indian and the white man resulted in the death of Juan Diego (Alessandro of the play Romona) by the hands of Sam Temple. — — Map (db m78591) HM
Nearby, an adobe house was built about 1867. It was occupied until 1898 by Leandro Serrano's widow, Josefa. Under Spanish law, she owned the surrounding 20,000-acre Rancho Temescal; but her ownership was denied by the US Supreme Court. — — Map (db m50645) HM
Within the building on this site stand the remaining walls of the Trujillo Adobe. The adobe was the center of La Placita de Los Trujillos, a village founded here in the 1860s. Many generations of the Trujillo family lived in the adobe. La Placita . . . — — Map (db m143382) HM
On September 29, 1976, Cesar Chavez spoke at University Theater at UC Riverside. The Latino American civil rights leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) often visited campuses inviting student support of his causes.
When he . . . — — Map (db m202305) HM
Ignacio Gómez, Meet Me at The Cheech, 2024
Bronze Sculpture
Dedicated November 19, 2024
Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, president of the Riverside Art Museum Board of Trustees (2022-2023) and chairperson of the Reach for The Cheech campaign . . . — — Map (db m304506) HM
Like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez's legacy is one of non-violence. He mobilized hundreds of Americans to boycott, strike, and make change through political action. He used the fast as a tool to demonstrate personal . . . — — Map (db m304168) HM
Spanish explorer Don Juan Bautista de Anza is the first European known to visit the area now known as Riverside. He passed through this region in 1774 and again in 1775-76 while seeking an overland roote from Sonora Mexico to the San Francisco . . . — — Map (db m304231) HM
This park is dedicated to the memory of Dario G. Vasquez born Dec. 19, 1919
A Riversider raised in this neighborhood. Killed in action in North Africa During WWII. April 2, 1943 — — Map (db m267547) WM
Danish sea captain Cornelius Jensen sailed to San Francisco during the Gold Rush to sell his cargo. In 1854 he settled in Agua Mansa, established a store, and married Mercedes Alvarado, a descendant of a pioneer Californio family. The Jensens . . . — — Map (db m50685) HM
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