Marker text: "Los Robles" (The Oaks)
This was the site of "Los Robles" the 400-acre estate of Governor George Stoneman. Here in 1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes was entertained. The first schoolhouse in the San Gabriel Valley, California's first tennis club, and the first municipal Christmas tree of San Marino were located here.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 669
Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in Cooperation with Region 14, Conference of California Historical Societies, September 9, 1959.