Historical Marker · No. 426
Site of Stone and Kelsey Home
Kelseyville, Lake County · California
Erected by California Centennials Commission; base furnished by the County of Lake, 1950
The bronze names the site of a home and then admits it is a grave: Stone and Kelsey lie beneath it. The state register has retitled the landmark for the two men and says they forced Indians, Pomo and Wappo people, to build the house. The town took the Kelsey name in 1882, when the Uncle Sam post office was renamed. In 2024 county voters rejected renaming it Konocti, after the mountain; the supervisors, backed by all seven Clear Lake tribes, recommended it anyway, and the question went to the state and federal naming boards.
What the plaque says
Site of First Adobe Home, Lake County Built by Charles Stone and Andy Kelsey on land purchased from Salvador Vallejo. Constructed by forced Indian labor, causing much resentment and culminating in murder by Indians of both Stone and Kelsey in the fall of 1849. Their remains are beneath this monument. State Registered Landmark No. 426 Tablet placed by California Centennials Commission. Base furnished by the County of Lake Dedicated May 30, 1950
Where it stands
38.97845, -122.84341 · Directions
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