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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck
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The Gilmore Adobe is there too. Lower left corner in both photos.
Built by Antonio Jose Rocha in 1828-31, the adobe was later sold to Arthur Gilmore who ran a dairy farm on the surrounding property. Arthur's son, Earl B. Gilmore was born there in 1886. Even though the Gilmores eventually became very wealthy due to the oil found on the property and the development of the land, Earl B. Gilmore continued to live in his childhood home. He died there, in the room where he was born, in 1964.
Kenneth A. Larson