Home of Juan Bautista Alvarado

The bronze, placed by the state's centennial commission in 1949, says that under Alvarado the growing number of Americans came to be regarded as a serious problem. It leaves out that he owed them his office. In November 1836 about fifty foreign riflemen under Isaac Graham marched on Monterey alongside José Castro's Californios, and the governor they came to depose surrendered after a single cannon shot. In 1840 Alvarado had Graham and dozens of other foreigners arrested, and some forty-seven were shipped to San Blas, freed only after British and American protest.

What the plaque says

Home of Juan Bautista Alvarado State Registered Landmark No. 348 Native of Monterey, governor of California under Mexican rule December 20, 1836 - December 20, 1842. During his administration the increasing influx of Americans, and the Russian settlement at Fort Ross, began to be regarded as serious problems. Russians withdrew in 1841. Tablet placed by California Centennials Commission in cooperation with Monterey Parlor No. 75, N. S. G. W. September 4, 1949

Where it stands

More markers nearby

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