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Description
John T. Reed's 2nd adobe. Note with photo taken from History of Mill Valley - Book Two: "John Reed wished to replace the primiteive (wood) cabin he had built. He hired Indians to make adobe bricks for the house that was to rise on a place today known as La Goma and Locke Lane...Here (at the mill) timbers were formed for the beams of the adobe home Reed was building down near the water and the saltmarshes. For in 1836 Reed was married at Mission Dolores to ninteen-year-old Hilaria Sanchez, and in that adobe near La Goma and Locke Lane their four children were born. A half dozen years later Reed was to cut more timbers for a two-story home near the first one, the adobe walls of which some Mill Valley residents even today can remember as still standing in 1916. But Reed was to die before the big house was finished, in 1843...(He had developed a fruit orchard around his home and) some of these fruit trees still blossom and the tract designation for the area, given by his great grandson, is 'Sollon's El Cerrito Orchard Tract'."
Type
image
Identifier
DA936D89-E407-454B-954C-448669356316 MVU3674
Subject
Adobe buildings Adobe houses Early Days & Pioneers Fences Reed, John Ruins
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