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.

What the plaque says

This example of early California architecture was built in 1850-53 by Raimundo Yorba. Purchased in 1868 by Fenton Mercer Slaughter, it was preserved as a memorial to him by his daughter, Julia Slaughter Fuqua.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Planes of Fame Air Museum — 3.2 mi
  On the field where the country smelted its surplus warplanes — and about thirty of the aircraft here still fly.
• Graber Olive House — 9.6 mi
  The oldest business in Ontario, a cannery of five hundred brine vats — shut since the pandemic and in foreclosure.
• Sherman Institute & the Sherman Indian Museum — 13 mi
  The federal Indian boarding school Riverside lobbied to get — still a school today, its 1902 building now a museum.
• Kaiser Steel Mill Site — 14 mi
  The mill that made Fontana a steel town, gave the country Kaiser Permanente, and drew a color line at Base Line Road.

More markers nearby

• Site of the Rancho Chino Adobe of Isaac Williams — 4.5 mi
• Corona Founders Monument — 7.7 mi
• Don Bernardo Yorba Ranchhouse Site — 8.4 mi
• Black Star Canyon Indian Village Site — 9.5 mi