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.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 4.7 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 7.1 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Cajon Pass — 20 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

• Fort Benson — 4.6 mi
• United States Rabbit Experimental Station — 6.2 mi
• Site of Mormon Stockade — 6.2 mi
• Guachama Rancheria — 7.3 mi