Captain Pedro Fages TrailIn 1772 Fages, commandante at Monterey, vainly looked for a way across San Francisco Bay. With Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, 14 soldiers, ... [click for more]
Don Salvio Pacheco AdobeIn 1834 Don Salvio Pacheco was awarded a grant called Monte del Diablo and on June 24, 1835 completed this two-story adobe, the first building to be e... [click for more]
East Brother Light StationLight Stations Of California (thematic historical marker). East Brother is the oldest wood-frame lighthouse on the West Coast stilll fully operational... [click for more]
Joaquín Moraga AdobeIn 1835 Don Joaquín Moraga, with his cousin Don Juan Bernal, was awarded this grant which they called Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados - th... [click for more]
Mount Diablo Coal FieldThis was the largest coal-mining district in California from 1860 to 1914, with five towns-Nortonville, Somersville, Stewartsville, Judsonville, and W... [click for more]
Mount DiabloMount Diablo had been a home with spiritual significance to the Costanoan Indians for at least 500 years when Spanish explorers viewed the mountain in... [click for more]
Richmond Shipyards DistrictThe Richmond Shipyards District was once a mammoth facility covering 880 acres in this North Bay community. The yards were constructed for and by the ... [click for more]
Site Of Giant Powder Company (Point Pinole)Pt. Pinole is the last site of the Giant Powder Company, the first company in America to produce dynamite. Following devastating explosions at their s... [click for more]
Site of the Murder of Dr. John MarshDr. Marsh, who practiced medicine throughout the state from his home near Brentwood, purchased Rancho Meganos in 1837. On his way home from Martinez, ... [click for more]
Vicente Martínez AdobeIn 1849 Vicente J. Martínez built this adobe on Rancho Pinole, which had been granted to Ignacio Martínez in 1836. In 1853, Vicente sold... [click for more]