"The Glass House," Casa Materna of the Vallejos

Monterey County · 2.5 miles southeast of Watsonville · location approximate

In the 1820's Don Ignacio Vallejo built the Casa Materna on Bolsa de San Cayetano, Don Ignacio and Doña María Antonio Lugo y Vallejo had 13 children—five sons and eight daughters, one of whom was General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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