Site of Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony

Five families, five pigs, a team of horses and a cow opened this place on May Day 1914, and by 1916 close to a thousand people lived here with a sawmill, a bakery and their own magazine. Only white applicants were accepted, and the magazine defended that in print. The state refused them a dam permit, a lawsuit took their water, and two hundred left for Louisiana in 1918. A bronze plaque went up in 1982 and was stolen within two weeks. Nobody replaced it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cajon Pass — 26 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

• Old Short Cut — 16 mi
• Mormon Trail Monument — 20 mi
• Pomona Water Powerplant — 22 mi
• Western Hotel — 22 mi