Historical Marker · No. 616
Las Flores Asistencia
Camp Pendleton, San Diego County · California
Erected by State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the U.S. Marine Corps and Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus, September 17, 1983
When Mission San Luis Rey was broken up, Las Flores became something rare. It was made a pueblo libre, one of a handful of free towns where the Mexican government returned land to the Payómkawichum people already living on it. It did not last. Pio and Andres Pico were granted the surrounding country in 1841, Las Flores was added to their grant in 1844, and the experiment ended. The bronze spends its text on a chapel and on two Californios quarreling over the governorship, and never mentions the town.
What the plaque says
Las Flores (San Pedro) Asistencia From 1823 to the 1840's the tile-roofed adobe chapel and hostel at Las Flores, built by Father Antonio Peyri, served as the asistencia to Mission San Luis Rey and provided comfort to travelers on El Camino Real. The adobe structure and adjacent corral were the site of the April 1838 battle between Juan Bautista Alvarado and Carlos Antonio Carrillo contesting the provincial governorship of Alta California. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 616 Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the U.S. Marine Corps and Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus, September 17, 1983.
Where it stands
33.29989, -117.46060 · Directions
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