#0509 Joaquin Moraga Adobe

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#0509 Joaquin Moraga Adobe

Site information:

24 Adobe Ln, Orinda

Site is at the end of a gated drive and on private property. No access allowed that I know of.

As of 2020, a group is raising funds to restore the adobe for public access.

37.842931,-122.153855

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No plaque

OHP description:

In 1835 Don Joaquin Moraga, with his cousin Don Juan Bernal, was awarded this grant which they called Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados - the adobe was completed in 1841. Don Joaquin was the grandson of Jose Joaquin Moraga, founder and first commandante of the Presidio of San Francisco.

Registered 9/24/1953

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