Reid-Baldwin Adobe

Bartolomea Comicrabit was born about 1808 at the Tongva village of Comicranga, taken to Mission San Gabriel at six, and married at thirteen to a man the padres chose for her. Widowed, she married Hugo Reid in 1836, and because he was not yet a Mexican citizen the Huerta de Cuati grant came to her alone. His claim to Rancho Santa Anita ran through her standing, not his own. He raised this adobe in 1839 because the grant required a house on the land. She died of smallpox in 1868.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 4.3 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 6.3 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Santa Monica Pier — 27 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.

More markers nearby

• E. J. Baldwin's Queen Anne Cottage — steps away
• Temporary Detention Camp for Japanese Americans, Santa Anita — 0.4 mi
• Savannah Memorial Park — 4.2 mi
• Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — 4.3 mi