San Bernardino Asistencia

An asistencia is a mission substation rather than a mission, and this one worked San Gabriel's holdings at the far eastern edge of its reach. Lugo used the buildings as part of his rancho in the 1840s, a Mormon bishop had them in the 1850s and a doctor in the 1860s, and by the 1930s most of it was gone. What stands on Barton Road is substantially the work of a Works Progress Administration crew who finished in 1937: a relief project wearing an 1830 face.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 6.9 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 8.6 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 23 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.

More markers nearby

• Guachama Rancheria — 1.3 mi
• A.K. Smiley Public Library — 1.9 mi
• Kimberly Crest — 2.6 mi
• The Zanja — 2.9 mi