Agua Mansa

The colonists Juan Bandini settled here from Abiquiu in New Mexico were recruited for their reputation as Indian fighters, and many were themselves of Native descent, genizaros raised in Spanish households after being taken as children. They held Politana from 1842 and moved down to the river by 1845, farming and guarding Bandini's stock. The great flood of January 1862 came down the Santa Ana in the night and took the village with it. The cemetery on the bluff is the oldest in the county.

What the plaque says

This historic site marks the resting place of the pioneers of the Agua Mansa area which was started about 1840. The preservation of this cemetery began in 1951.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harada House — 3.8 mi
  The 1884 cottage a Japanese American family bought in their children's names, and kept in court.
• Mount Rubidoux — 4.2 mi
  The mountain all of Riverside walks — and the half-acre at the summit the city sold rather than go to court.
• Riverside Chinatown Site — 4.6 mi
  Riverside's second Chinatown — an empty lot on purpose, with eighty percent of it still underground.
• Wigwam Motel — 4.7 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.

More markers nearby

• Harada House — 3.8 mi
• Site of Louis Rubidoux House — 3.8 mi
• Site of Old Rubidoux Grist Mill — 3.9 mi
• Mission Inn — 4.0 mi