Ramón Peralta Adobe: The plaque mounted on the wall outside the Ramón Peralta adobe [see 2012 image at right], located on the southwestern corner of E. Santa Ana Canyon Road at S. Fairmont Blvd. in present day Anaheim Hills, CA, reads as follows:

Ramón Peralta built this adobe dwelling in 1871. His grandfather, Juan Pablo Peralta, was co-grantee with José Antonio Yorba of the only Spanish land grant in Orange County, the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, upon which the old Peralta settlement was located. The adobe was restored in 1985.

Historical Site No. 33 / Orange County Board of Supervisors / Orange County Historical Commission / Placed 1986

The Ramón Peralta adobe [see various images at right from 1936, 1974, and 2012] is the only surviving adobe in the area. When Ramón Peralta died in 1873, the adobe was acquired by his cousin Pablo Dominguez. In 1881, after repairs and remodeling to the structure, Dominguez and his bride Felipa Yorba moved into the adobe. Following Dominguez's death in 1895, the family moved to the north side of the Santa Ana River. (Source: LA Times, November 26, 1988.)

The abandoned adobe and surrounding land were sold to E. Walter Pyne in 1908 so he could extend his orange groves. Pyne preserved the adobe walls by covering them with a two-and-a-half inch layer of concrete.

In 1920, when the Santa Ana Canyon Road was realigned, Pyne set up a gas station and roadside diner next to the adobe to serve passing motorists [see mural illustration at right]. The cafe operated for more than four decades under the ownership of different families, such as the Shaffer family in 1947 [see black and white image at right], and the McCollum family in the early 1960s who named their eatery Mac's Canyon Cafe.

The Mac's Canyon Cafe matchbook cover from circa the early 1960s [pictured right] shows the address of the diner as 20722 Santa Ana Canyon Road, "4 Miles East of Olive," indicating that Olive was a well-known town by many locals during that time.