Site of Louis Rubidoux House

Louis Robidoux came west from New Mexico in 1844, bought into Rancho Jurupa, and ran cattle, orchards, vineyards, grain and a winery on it until he died in 1868. The family spelled the name Robidoux. Almost nothing here does. A mountain, a community, a school district and this landmark all carry Rubidoux, a u standing in for an o, and the misspelling has outlasted the house by a century and a half. The site is a block of Mission Boulevard now, with nothing above ground to see.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 8.3 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 11 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• 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

• Site of Old Rubidoux Grist Mill — steps away
• Cornelius and Mercedes Jenson Ranch — 0.6 mi
• Mission Inn — 2.1 mi
• De Anza Crossing of the Santa Ana River, 1775 and 1776 — 2.5 mi