"It's quite unique," Salbego said of the building. The structure is an adobe barn with four crumbling walls and no roof. It's what's left of an old cotton farm, said Mike Hayes, deputy parks ...

Finally, we prowled the Cooper Molera Adobe, built by a man from New England who married into a Mexican family. It’s not quite like time travel to poke through these buildings, because the parks ...

“And that fight” for Mexican Americans, Gutierrez said as he gestured toward the Adobe Flores, “started right here.” In 1847, the fight for California ended at El Adobe Flores. But the ...