Exterior view of an adobe house in a copse of trees on Rancho Temblor in Bakersfield, ca.1938

Photograph of an exterior view of an adobe house in a copse of trees on Rancho Temblor in Bakersfield, ca.1938. The adobe, shown jacketed in a new modern covering, is shown to the left of center embedded in a lush swath of trees at the foot of the hill behind it. Only the roof and upper portion of the facade are visible behind the greenery.; This adobe was one of the aguajes or water holes along Camino Viego. Tradition says that while al party of early Spanish explorers camped here an earthquake rent the earth and an abundance of spring of water ran from the earth. The country is almost devoid of foliation, but at this place immense cottonwoods, some measuring ten feet through the trunk, and fig trees, some measuring more than five feet through the trunk, surround the deserted ranch buildings. The road to the ranch runs through the lease of the Outpost Oil Company in the Temblor Oil Field.