Petaluma Adobe

The 2006 plaque stands by the parking lot, near where the rancho's Native village stood, and calls this a working rancho. The work was theirs: between 600 and 2,000 Coast Miwok, Southern Pomo, Wappo and Patwin people made the bricks, tended the herds and worked the looms, many of them effectively enslaved. The archives barely record them. Excavations from 1996 to 2000, advised by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, brought their lives back. A 1970 federal plaque, a memorial to John W. Murphy and a bust of Vallejo share the wall.

What the plaque says

Petaluma Adobe has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States U. S. Department of the Interior National Park Service 1970 Vallejo's Petaluma Adobe Petaluma Adobe served as the center for General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's 66,000-acre working rancho from 1836-1846. It was once the largest privately owned adobe building in northern California; Vallejo sold the building and surrounding acres in 1857. The Native Sons of the Golden West acquired the adobe in 1910 and the State of California obtained it in 1951. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 18 Plaque placed by the Sonoma Petaluma State Historic Parks Association and the Native Daughters of the Golden West Petaluma Parlor #222, July 11th, 2006

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Temelec Hall — 4.6 mi
• Camilo Ynitia Adobe — 7.2 mi
• General M. G. Vallejo Home — 7.2 mi
• Union Hotel and Union Hall — 7.2 mi