Yorba-Slaughter Adobe

Raimundo Yorba built this between 1850 and 1853, and it is still here for an unglamorous reason: a daughter decided it would be. Fenton Mercer Slaughter bought it in 1868 and farmed the Chino flats from it, and after his death his daughter Julia Slaughter Fuqua kept the adobe as a memorial to her father rather than letting it go the way of every other rancho house in this valley. Preservation before there was a word for it, done by one person.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 21 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 25 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 27 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.

More markers nearby

• Site of the Rancho Chino Adobe of Isaac Williams — 4.5 mi
• Madonna of the Trail — 12 mi
• Tapia Adobe (Site of) — 12 mi
• Cucamonga Rancho Winery — 12 mi