Dio de Los Muertos Memoir

Sonomaites are well acquainted with that decorative Victorian at the end of a long, stately cottonwood tree-lined driveway, just a short walk west of the city square. In the 1800’s Lachryma Montis was home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, whose father Ignacio had arrived in 1774. Ignacio was part of a Mexican colonial army contingent, which accompanied church father Junipero Serra to found the first presidio mission. Many personal effects and historic documents of the family and of Mariano– destined to be a player in California’s history–are on museum display at the site. Read More…

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