The Yucaipa Adobe
California Historical Landmark #528
32183 Kentucky Street
Yucaipa, CA 92399
909-795-3485
http://www.sbcounty.gov/museum/branches/yucadob.htm
Tues-Sat: 10a-3p
Closed New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Oral history and tradition attributed this adobe home to Diego Sepulveda. But historical and archaeological studies undertaken during restoration and seismic strengthening of the adobe in 1989-1990 provided a new interpretation. It is now believed that Diego Sepulveda’s adobe was located a few hundred yards away, near 16th and Dunlap Boulevard, and that James Waters, noted hunter, trapper, and mountaineer, built the Yucaipa Adobe in 1858-1859. Mr. Waters stocked his Yucaipa Rancho with sheep, driving herds as far as Arizona and Montana.
The Yucaipa Adobe contains furnishings from the nineteenth century. Horse-drawn farm implements are exhibited outside the adobe. The exhibit was donated by the Haley and Melton families, early Yucaipa ranchers. The Lions Club of Yucaipa moved the farm implements to the site and organized the exhibit, which also includes a blacksmith shop.
A branch of the San Bernardino County Museum.
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