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.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Santa Monica Pier — 17 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 25 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 — 26 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.

More markers nearby

• Site of Old Whaling Station — 4.3 mi
• Site of Home of Diego Sepúlveda — 4.4 mi
• Banning Park — 5.1 mi
• Drum Barracks — 5.3 mi