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California Historical Landmarks in Lake County
 
 
 
California Landmark 426
Site of First Adobe Home, Lake County
Main Street and Bell Hill Road
Kelseyville
Died 1849
Site of First Adobe Home in Lake County, California
Click the photograph to read the plaque

Site of First Adobe Home, Lake County

Built by Charles Stone and Andy Kelsey on land purchased from Salvador Vallejo. Constructed by forced Indian labor, causing much resentment and culminating in murder by Indians of both Stone and Kelsey in the fall of 1849. Their remains are beneath this monument.

State Registered Landmark No. 426

Tablet placed by California Centennials Commission
Base furnished by the County of Lake
Dedicated May 30, 1950

Some other landmark California adobes:
Alvarado Adobe in San Pablo
Castro Adobe near Watsonville
Castro Adobe Site in El Cerrito
 
Don Fernando Pacheco Adobe in Concord
Don Salvio Pacheco Adobe in Concord
El Adobe de los Robles Near Lemoore
 
Martinez Adobe in Martinez
Moraga Adobe in Orinda
Nash Adobe in Sonoma
 
Peña Adobe near Vacaville
Petaluma Adobe near Petaluma
Reading Adobe Site near Cottonwood
 
Stone and Kelsey Adobe Site in Kelseyville
Swift Adobe Site near Orland
Vallejo Adobe in Sonoma
 
 
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