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Alvarado Adobe

Alvarado Adobe is a California Historical Landmark in San Pablo, Contra Costa County.

Contra Costa County · 2748 San Pablo Avenue, San Pablo · location approximate

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Site of adobe house, grape arbor, and gardens built in 1842 by Jesús María Castro for his mother, Doña Gabriela Berryessa de Castro, widow of Francisco María Castro, grantee, 1823, of Rancho (Cuchiyunes) San Pablo. Doña Gabriela died in 1851, deeding the adobe to her daughter, Martina Castro de Alvarado, whose husband, Juan Bautista Alvarado, was Governor from 1836 to 1842.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

what this marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years here

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

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