San Deigo Historic Site 60 CASA DE LOPEZ

This house, at the west end of Twiggs Street in Old Town, was built about 1835, by Francisco Lopez. It was known as La Casa Larga, "The Long House." Father Antonio Ubach, the Gaspara of Ramona, lived in one room. Legend says that Ramona and Alessandro came to this house to get him to marry them. Don Matias Moreno lived in this adobe while secretary to Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California,and called it his home again after serving as governor of Lower Californiahimself. His wife, Prudenciana, gave the alarm when the Americans invadedin 1846, by running through town shouting, "Here come a million Americans!"