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Historical Markers and War Memorials in San Juan Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano, California and Vicinity
▶ Orange County (184) ▶ Los Angeles County (752) ▶ Riverside County (108) ▶ San Bernardino County (213) ▶ San Diego County (292)
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| On Camino Capistrano, on the right when traveling north. |
| | An historic landmark uniting the "Miguel Yorba Adobe" 1778 "Juzgado" (Court and Jail) 1812 — — Map (db m51945) HM |
| On Los Rios Street at River Street, on the right when traveling south on Los Rios Street. |
| | Circa 1890-1900
Restoration 1980
In memory of
Delfina Olivares
Matriarch of the San Juan
Capistrano Historical Society — — Map (db m148346) HM |
| On El Camino Real, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
| On Verdugo Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Built in 1894, renovated in 1974-75 as a restaurant. The original Mission style, one of the first stations to use it, was retained. The interior is so small freight and passenger cars were added, and the exterior of the platform enclosed in glass to . . . — — Map (db m149785) HM |
| On Verdugo Street north of Los Rios Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Built in 1878 in Forester City (near San Onofre). Moved to San Juan Capistrano in 1882, it has served as a general store, post office and residence. — — Map (db m148409) HM |
| On Camino Capistrano, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
| On Camino Capistrano, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Neo-Victorian, built in 1883 by Richard Egan, surveyor, school trustee and justice of the peace. Rebuilt in 1898 after a fire. Known as "Harmony Hall", it served as Judge Egan's home, office and courtroom until his death in 1923. — — Map (db m51940) HM |
| On Camino Capistrano, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
| On El Camino Real, on the right when traveling north. |
| |
[Eastern Side]
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 . . . — — Map (db m51947) HM |
| On Camino Capistrano, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Built in the 1840's by Manuel Garcia, a Portuguese merchant, this is the only surviving Monterey style adobe in Orange County. Owned by the Oyharzabal family since 1880, its uses have included: French Hotel, a general store and the town's first . . . — — Map (db m50007) HM |
| On Ortega Highway at Camino Capistrano, on the left when traveling east on Ortega Highway. |
| | Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1776 by Saint
Serra. As the seventh of the 21 California missions, and the
only mission in Orange County, it hosts the State's most
historically significant chapel, Serra Chapel (1782) and the
ruins of . . . — — Map (db m148351) HM |
| Near Ortega Highway, on the right when traveling west. |
| | "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 |
| On Los Rios Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On Los Rios Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Built in the 1880's, this Victorian house was one of the town's first wooden buildings. It was moved from its original location across the tracks and about a block south. The building was restored in 1979. — — Map (db m149786) HM |
| Near Stonehill Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 m125441) HM |
| On Los Rios Street at Verdugo Crossing, on the left when traveling north on Los Rios Street. |
| | 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 |
| On Los Rios Street south of River Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | This jail cell was built in 1896 to serve as a holding cell for miscreants on their way to County jail. Originally located on the west side of Camino Capistrano at the intersection with Ortega Highway, it was the scene of several jailbreaks and one . . . — — Map (db m137613) HM |
| On Camino Capistrano (State Highway 74) at Ortega Highway on Camino Capistrano. |
| | Founded in 1776 by Padre Junipero Serra. The seventeenth in the chain of twenty-one missions established in Alta California to Christianize and civilize the Indians. Stone church destroyed in 1812 earthquake. Expropriated during Mexican rule. . . . — — Map (db m50226) HM |
| On Camino Capistrano, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On Ortega Highway, on the right when traveling west. |
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The Mission of San Juan Capistrano which is about to be established in the valley of the same name or in its vicinity between the Missions of San Diego & San Gabriel of the Earthquakes, about twenty leagues from both & too . . . — — Map (db m148353) HM |
| On Verdugo Street at Los Rios Street, on the left when traveling west on Verdugo Street. |
| | The Los Rios Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places April 4, 1983. This District includes 31 historic structures which line both sides of the street from Del Obispo to Mission Street. The District's registered . . . — — Map (db m149784) HM |
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