328 W Mission Rd
San Gabriel, CA 91776, USA

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Purcell House, 328 West Mission Rd, San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, CA

This structure is said to the the very oldest house in San Gabriel, presumably constructed three years before the Mission Church as a dwelling place for the friars in charge of the Mission. This small ranch was formerly known as Las Tunas Rancho and was completed surrounded by a hedge of "Tuna," or cactus, such as the Mission Fathers planted to protect their groves and orchards from the inroads of marauding Indians or cattle. In 1880 the hedge was about fifty feet thick. The grounds of this house contain the first orange seedlings planted in California, four gnarled olive trees, two large pecan trees, a cocoanut palm and a lemon-verbena tree, all dating from the orchards of the padres. Some of the cactus hedge also remains. Now owned and used as a residence by Colonel Purcell.

Purcell House, 328 West Mission Rd, San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, CA

This structure is said to the the very oldest house in San Gabriel, presumably constructed three years before the Mission Church as a dwelling place for the friars in charge of the Mission. This small ranch was formerly known as Las Tunas Rancho and was completed surrounded by a hedge of "Tuna," or cactus, such as the Mission Fathers planted to protect their groves and orchards from the inroads of marauding Indians or cattle. In 1880 the hedge was about fifty feet thick. The grounds of this house contain the first orange seedlings planted in California, four gnarled olive trees, two large pecan trees, a cocoanut palm and a lemon-verbena tree, all dating from the orchards of the padres. Some of the cactus hedge also remains. Now owned and used as a residence by Colonel Purcell.

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