Village of Summerville

National Register of Historic Places, 1980

While not incorporated as a separate community until 1861 (with boundaries being a circle with a one mile radius from Gould's Corner), Summerville was occupied before the turn of the 19th Century. Early residents included ...

Dr. Paul Carlson Memorial Park

First Park in Culver City

This land was first traversed by Native Americans, called Tongva, (later known as the Gabrielinos). Under Spanish rule, it was settled as a portion of Rancho La Ballona. After Culver City was incorporated in 1917, ...

Civil War Union Camp Latham

(1861-1862)

The First California Infantry, under Col. James H. Carleton, and First California Calvary, under Lt. Col. Benjamin F. Davis, marched from the port of San Pedro, 18 miles, a day's journey, to lay out Camp Latham. Named for U.S. ...

Mono County Memorial Hall

Alta Lodge No. 333

Alta Lodge No. 333, Free and Accepted Masons was chartered on October 15. 1897.

The original lodge hall was in the brick building at the corner of Hwy. 395 and Hayes Street. The Lodge moved to this location ...

Hunewill Upper Sawmill

Buckeye Canyon – 1863

Napoleon Bonaparte Hunewill and his wife Esther arrive in San Francisco from Maine in 1859, and early in 1861 they came to Aurora. Late fall found them building a home at Buckeye Hot Springs. In 1862, N.B. ...

The Culver Studios

On this site in 1919, the Colonial Administration Building of what was to become one of Culver City's three major motion picture studios was completed. Built by and first producing film as the Thomas H. Ince Studios, it later became ...

American Legion Building

A portion of the original Spanish landgrant Rancho La Ballona

The American Legion Post #46 clubhouse was dedicated on August 9, 1930. Contractor Don S. Ely erected the building on this site over the first swimming pool in the area, ...

St. Augustine's Church

In 1883 this land was donated by Señor J. Francisco Figueroa to the Roman Catholic Church of Los Angeles in order that a mission church be built to serve the people of La Ballona Valley. In 1887 a small wooden ...

Culver City

Site of City Hall

The city of Culver City incorporated in 1912, built its first permanent City Hall on this site in 1926. This is a portion of the original Spanish landgrant, Rancho La Ballona.

Marker is at the intersection ...

St. Mary's Hospital of Emporia

St. Mary's Hospital of Emporia was first opened on this location in 1884 by the Sisters of the Order of St. Francis at Lafayette, In. For many years it was the only hospital between Kansas City and Wichita, and it ...