Tapia Adobe (Site of)

Tiburcio Tapia was an ex-soldier, a Los Angeles merchant and an alcalde, and in 1839 the governor handed him thirteen thousand acres. He put a large adobe on Red Hill half a mile west of here, and the register says plainly that he employed Indian labourers to build it, which is more than most plaques of this vintage manage. His heirs sold the rancho in 1858, the house was abandoned, and it dissolved back into the ground it was dug from.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 15 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 18 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Cajon Pass — 18 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

• Cucamonga Rancho Winery — steps away
• Madonna of the Trail — 2.3 mi
• United States Rabbit Experimental Station — 9.5 mi
• Site of the Rancho Chino Adobe of Isaac Williams — 10 mi