Site of Mormon Stockade

Five hundred Mormon colonists reached this valley in June 1851, bought the Lugo rancho, and within months threw up a log stockade around the site of Jose del Carmen Lugo's 1839 adobe, the first house in San Bernardino. More than a hundred families lived inside it for over a year. The attack never came. The raiding they feared was on horses and cattle along the Old Spanish Trail and the colonists kept neither; by 1857 Brigham Young had recalled them to Utah and the fort emptied.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 1.4 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 3.5 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 17 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

• Fort Benson — 3.1 mi
• The Arrowhead — 4.4 mi
• Guachama Rancheria — 4.5 mi
• San Bernardino Asistencia — 5.7 mi