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Rancho Guajome Adobe, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Guajome Ranch House, is an 1850s adobe ''hacienda'' (house) in Vista, northern San Diego County, Southern California. ==History== The adobe was built in 1852 and served as the headquarters of Rancho Guajome, a Mexican land grant. Abel Stearns had given the rancho to Ysidora Bandini (sister of his wife Arcadia Bandini), as a wedding gift when she married Lieutenant Cave Johnson Couts in 1851. It is a large rambling twenty-room Spanish Colonial style hacienda with two courtyards, an arcaded veranda, and other structures including a chapel in a former small house.〔(Historyandculture.com: Guajome adobe ) . accessed 9.6.2012〕〔 It was built with the profits from the cattle boom of the 1850s, when many California ranchos supplied the Gold Rush miners and associated new American immigrants with meat and leather.〔 Couts was appointed sub-agent for the native Luiseño people (San Luis Rey Mission Indians) in 1853, and used their enslaved labor to improve his properties in the area, including this one and nearby Rancho Buena Vista and Rancho Vallecitos de San Marcos.〔(Slavery in the Golden State )〕〔Michael Magliari, 2004, ''Free Soil, Unfree Labor: Cave Johnson Couts and the Binding of Indian Workers in California, 1850-1867''; August 2004; Pacific Historical Review〕 ;Landmark The structures were was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.〔〔 and 〕 It is also a California Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rancho Guajome Adobe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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