Rancho Guajome Adobe
Rancho Guajome Adobe is an historic 1850s hacienda located in Vista. The 7,000+ square foot adobe served as the headquarters of Rancho Guajome, a Mexican land grant carved out of the holdings of Mission San Luis Rey. Ownership of the land passed from owner to owner until Cave Johnson Couts and Ysidora Bandini received it as a wedding present. Two years after acquiring the land, the couple began constructing their home on the property. Couts bound members of the local Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians to build the house under slave labor conditions. Couts died in 1874 at the age of 53, but Rancho Guajome remained in the Couts family until 1943. In 1973, the County of San Diego acquired 566 acres of Rancho Guajome and undertook a major rehabilitation of the property which was completed in 1996. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Vista, San Diego County
Photographer: John Bare