Historical Marker · No. 210
Camilo Ynitia Adobe
Novato, Marin County · California
No plaque stands here, and the register has dropped its old title, Oldest House North of San Francisco Bay, with the 1776 story that went with it. Olompali was a Coast Miwok village for more than a thousand years. Camilo Ynitia, its last hoipu, or headman, built his adobe here in 1837, and in 1843 received two leagues of his own people's land as a Mexican grant; after 1848 it became the only deed to a California Indian confirmed under American rule. He sold most of it in 1852 and died on the corner he kept.
Where it stands
38.15261, -122.57112 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Earthquake Trail — 14 miA short loop along the San Andreas, where a broken fence shows how far Point Reyes moved in under a minute in 1906.
- Kule Loklo — 15 miA Coast Miwok village built in the 1970s to honour a people its builders were told had died out. They had not.
- Muir Woods National Monument — 18 miA redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
- Muir Beach Overlook — 20 miA cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
More markers nearby
- Petaluma Adobe — 7.2 mi
- St. Vincent's School for Boys — 8.5 mi
- Temelec Hall — 8.7 mi
- Marin County Civic Center — 11 mi