Welcome to the Spanish-Mexican
Adobe page for the Stagecoach Inn Museum.
For a quarter century after the achievement of Mexican independence
in 1821, California was a remote northern province of the nation
of Mexico. Huge cattle ranches, or ranchos, emerged as the dominant
institutions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the
United States began to arrive, harbingers of the great changes that
would sweep California during the Mexican American War of 1846-1848.
