Site of the Rancho Chino Adobe of Isaac Williams

Isaac Williams married into the Lugo family, took twenty-two thousand acres of Rancho Chino from his father-in-law, and in 1841 built an adobe big enough to matter. It mattered in September 1846, when about fifty Californios besieged it and took twenty-four Americans prisoner in what is called the Battle of Chino. Afterwards the house settled into a gentler career as an inn and stage stop on the immigrant road, known up and down the trail for feeding people well.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 23 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 23 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.
• Original McDonald's Site — 26 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 28 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

• Yorba-Slaughter Adobe — 4.5 mi
• Madonna of the Trail — 9.0 mi
• Tapia Adobe (Site of) — 10 mi
• Cucamonga Rancho Winery — 10 mi