A.K. Smiley Public Library

Albert Smiley gave Redlands this building and its park in 1898 and added a matching wing in 1906. The money came from Mohonk Mountain House, the Quaker resort he ran in New York, and Mohonk was also where he convened the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian every year from 1883. Those meetings, held alongside the federal Board of Indian Commissioners, helped shape allotment and boarding school policy. One fortune paid for both, and only one of them has a plaque.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 8.0 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 10 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 23 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.

More markers nearby

• The Zanja — 1.0 mi
• Kimberly Crest — 1.3 mi
• San Bernardino Asistencia — 1.9 mi
• Guachama Rancheria — 3.1 mi