Site of Adobe Home of José Dolores Sepulveda

José Dolores Sepúlveda finished an adobe here in 1818 while running stock on a corner of Rancho San Pedro he did not yet hold title to. In February 1824 he rode north to Monterey to settle the claim. Coming home on the twenty-first he stopped at Mission La Purísima Concepción, the day Chumash people there rose against the floggings and forced labor of the mission system, and he was killed in the fighting. His sons were granted Rancho de los Palos Verdes ten years later. No plaque marks the corner.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Point Vicente — 5.1 mi
  Volunteers have counted the gray whale migration from this bluff for four decades, over water where shore whalers nearly finished the same herds.
• The Banning Museum — 5.2 mi
  The man who made a harbor out of an open bay: freight, dredging, the first railroad in Southern California, and a cupola for watching ships.
• Drum Barracks — 5.3 mi
  The Union Army built its Southern California headquarters in a county that had voted against Lincoln two to one, and stabled the Army camels here.
• The Port of Los Angeles — 5.7 mi
  The busiest container port in the country, sitting on ground that was dredged into existence: marsh, then landfill, then Pier 400.

More markers nearby

• Site of Old Whaling Station — 4.3 mi
• Site of Home of Diego Sepúlveda — 4.4 mi
• Old Salt Lake — 4.7 mi
• Banning Park — 5.1 mi