Who were Geronimo and Catalina Lopez and what is the connection between their Lopez Adobe home and San Fernandos past?
In the early 1860s, Geronimo and Catalina LopezÂthe daughter of majordomo Pedro LopezÂbought about forty acres of land north of where the San Fernando Mission had been. They built a big adobe home and stagehouse known as Lopez Station. They made their mark in the area, with Don Geronimo opening the first post office in the valley in 1869 and also starting its first general store at Lopez Station. Their Lopez Adobe home was built by Valentin Lopez, Geronimo’s cousin and brother-in-law, in 1882-83 at what is now the corner of Maclay Avenue and Pico Street. The Lopezes represented a bridge between the Mission’s former glory days and the 1874 founding of San Fernando as its own community, with gold rush fever and an influx of settlers filling the intervening years. In the process, they witnessed the area’s evolution from ranching to agriculture to orchards to development. Their Lopez Adobe home was the first two-story adobe residential structure in the San Fernando Valley, and to this day
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