Old Town Irvine

The town began as a Santa Fe stop in 1887 and had its bean warehouse by 1895, but no post office until 1899. By then Calaveras County already had an Irvine post office, so James Irvine II named this one Myford, for his newborn son. The Calaveras office became Carson Hill in 1909, and Myford became Irvine only in 1914. The 1895 warehouse could hold 200,000 hundred-pound sacks of limas, garbanzos and barley. No state plaque stands here; the Native Daughters' bronze of 1987 predates the 1991 registration.

What the plaque says

Old Town Irvine The townsite began in 1887 with the arrival of the AT&SF RR. James Irvine II chose this site to be the shipping center for crops grown on the Irvine Ranch, due to its high elevation. Original buildings remaining include the Bean Shed (1895), Bulk Storage Warehouse (1949), Blacksmith Shop (1912), Garage (1929), Tenant Farmhouse (1897), General Store (1912), and Hotel (1913). The hotel and store were moved from across Sand Canyon Avenue in 1986. Dedicated by Santa Ana Parlor No. 235, Native Daughters of the Golden West, Santa Ana. 2-9-87 This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Planes of Fame Air Museum — 22 mi
  On the field where the country smelted its surplus warplanes — and about thirty of the aircraft here still fly.
• Puvungna — 22 mi
  The Acjachemen and Tongva place of creation: twenty-two acres of open ground on a university campus, still not in the hands of its people.
• California Citrus State Historic Park — 25 mi
  A state park that is still a working orange grove — the last big piece of Riverside's citrus landscape left standing.
• Sherman Institute & the Sherman Indian Museum — 25 mi
  The federal Indian boarding school Riverside lobbied to get — still a school today, its 1902 building now a museum.

More markers nearby

• Barton Mound — 1.9 mi
• The Serrano Adobe — 4.4 mi
• Red Hill — 6.0 mi
• Carbondale — 7.6 mi