The Salvio Pacheco Adobe is a historic

adobe house Adobe (from arabic: الطوب Attub ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used ...

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. It was built in 1835 by

Salvio Pacheco Don Juan Salvio Pacheco II (1793–1876) was a Californio politician, ranchero and soldier. He founded the city of Concord, then known as Todos Santos. Pacheco also served three terms as Alcalde of San José (mayor of San Jose). Biography Pache ...

, a

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ranchero with vast lands in Contra Costa.

History

In 1834, Salvio Pacheco was awarded the

Rancho Monte del Diablo Rancho Monte del Diablo (Devil's Mount Ranch in Spanish) was a Mexican land grant in present-day Contra Costa County, California given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Salvio Pacheco. The name "Monte del Diablo" means "thicket of the devil" ...

Mexican land grant In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish concessions of land were made to retired soldiers as an indu ...

, including what is now known as Concord and parts of Pleasant Hill. On June 24, 1835, he completed this two-story adobe, the first building to be erected in

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. Pacheco gave the land surrounding this adobe to the refugees of the earthquake-flood of 1868, and the community—previously known as Todos Santos—became known as Concord.

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Salvio Pacheco Adobe - Concord Historic Society

California Landmark 515 at NoeHill
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