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The San Fernando Valley Historical Society is a private service organization, in Mission Hills,
online calendar
Museum Location Map
. accessed 8/28/2010
official San Fernando Valley Historical Society websiteCSUN: San Fernando Valley History Digital Library website
The San Fernando Valley Historical Society is a private service organization, in Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the List of the most populous counties in the United States, most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, ...
, that is committed to "research, collect and preserve the history, art and culture of the San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Located to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it contains a large portion of the City of Los Angeles, as well as unincorporated ar ...
". The group was founded on July 4, 1943.
Activities
The Society offers regular Andres Pico Adobe tours, and special programs and concerts, to educate and entertain the public, listed in aonline calendar
Museum
The San Fernando Valley Historical Society has aMuseum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
about the Valley's history, housed in the landmark Andres Pico Adobe
Andres or Andrés may refer to:
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*Andres, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
*Andres (name)
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. The museum offers vintage room settings of the era, antique and artifact displays, and period gardens. The museum is located near the Mission San Fernando Rey de España
Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish mis ...
in Mission Hills, California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
.. accessed 8/28/2010
See also
*History of the San Fernando Valley to 1915
The history of the San Fernando Valley from its exploration by the 1769 Portola expedition to the annexation of much of it by the City of Los Angeles in 1915 is a story of booms and busts, as cattle ranching, sheep ranching, large-scale wheat farm ...
*List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley
This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley, California. It includes Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley as well as the adjacent Crescenta Valley. In total, there are more than 70 His ...
External links
official San Fernando Valley Historical Society website
References
History of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Historical societies in California Non-profit organizations based in Los Angeles History museums in Los Angeles Historical society museums in California Mission Hills, Los Angeles Organizations established in 1943 1943 establishments in California {{US-org-stub