Guachama Rancheria

Kaawchama, glossed as plenty to eat, was a substantial village here long before any Franciscan arrived. Whose village it was is genuinely contested: some accounts place it at the eastern edge of Tovaangar and count it Tongva, others give it to the Maara'yam and the Kawiya, the Serrano and Cahuilla whose country surrounds it. What the register records is the day in May 1810 when Francisco Dumetz renamed it San Bernardino, and the mission supply station that followed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 5.8 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 7.3 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 22 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

• San Bernardino Asistencia — 1.3 mi
• Fort Benson — 2.9 mi
• A.K. Smiley Public Library — 3.1 mi
• Kimberly Crest — 3.9 mi