A Photography Project
The Hill-Carrillo Adobe in Santa Barbara was built in 1826 by Daniel Hill for his bride Rafaela Luisa Ortega y Olivera, granddaughter of José Francisco Ortega, founder and first Comandante of the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara.
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One of the oldest standing buildings in Orange County, the Diego Sepulveda Adobe built around 1820, encompasses nearly 200 years of Costa Mesa history in Estancia Park, overlooking the Santa Ana River bed.
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The Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach service operated from 1858 to 1861 when disrupted by the Civil War. The Oak Grove Stage Station, near Warner Springs, is one of the few, if not the only station still standing on the entire route.
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The adobe home of the last governor of Mexican California, Don Pio Pico, stands on the grounds of Pio Pico State Historic Park in Whittier. The five acre park was once part of Pico’s 9,000 acre ranch, Rancho Paso de Bartolo.
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The Miguel Yorba Adobe in San Juan Capistrano, built circa 1797, and a courthouse with a jail in the basement built to its south around 1812 were connected in 1910 and built into El Adobe de Capistrano restaurant which opened in 1948.
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The Ramona Pageant, the love story of Ramona and Alessandro (a “Romeo and Juliet set in the Wild Wild West”), has been performed annually at the Ramona Bowl, a natural amphitheater in the foothills above Hemet, since 1923.
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Built in the 1810s, Mission La Purísima Concepción, or La Purísima Mission, near Lompoc is the most completely restored of the California mission complexes and one of only two missions no longer governed by the Catholic Church.
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