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Forbes Road from Fort Lyttleton to Fort Duquesne. The Forbes Road, a historic military roadway in what was then British America, was initially completed in 1758 from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to the French Fort Duquesne at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh, via Fort Loudon, Fort Lyttleton, Fort Bedford and Fort Ligonier.
Casa de Estudillo (San Leandro, California) Casa de Lopez; Casa Dolores; Castro Adobe; José Castro House; Catalina Verdugo Adobe; Cayetano Juarez Adobe; Centinela Adobe; Cornelia White House; Coronel Adobe
A base was established at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and a trail cut through the Allegheny Mountains, which became the Forbes Road. Already severely ill, Forbes had to be carried in a litter and relied heavily on Bouquet, who commanded the advance guard. Construction of the road and bases such as Fort Ligonier was supervised by Lt-Colonel John St ...
Alvarado Adobe is a historical adobe house in San Pablo, California in Contra Costa County. Jesús María Castro built the Adobe house for his monther Dona Gabriéla Berryessa de Castro in 1842. At that time, Dona Gabriéla Berryessa de Castro was the widow of Californio landowner Francisco María Castro (1770–1831).
William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park is a California State Historic Park located on the west bank of the Sacramento River, a mile north of Red Bluff in Tehama County, California. Although it was initially believed that Ide built the adobe, research has shown that he never lived in the place that bears his name today.
Forbestown (formerly, Boles Dry Diggins and Forbes Diggins) is a census-designated place [4] in Butte County, California. [2] It lies at an elevation of 2772 feet (845 m). [2] Its zip code is 95941 and its area code is 530. Forbestown had a population of 320 at the 2010 census. Forbestown is named for B.F. Forbes, who opened a store there in ...
Slaughter, who later served in the California State Assembly, lived in the house until his 1897 death. [3] Slaughter's daughter, Julia Slaughter Fuqua, began rehabilitating the adobe in 1928. The adobe was designated a California Historical Landmark on June 20, 1935. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1975. [1]
When the mission property was sold by Governor Pio Pico after the Mexican secularization act of 1833, Ríos and William Reed purchased the mission and adobe in 1846. [4] [5] The original building was made of adobe, had a roof of hand-made tiles, and used strips of rawhide to tie the pine rafters in place. The Ríos family used the home as a ...