Del Valle Adobe at Rancho Camulos
Coinciding with President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday this week, Rancho Camulos Museum announced some exciting and “historic” news.
The National Museum of American History (NMAH), a branch of the Smithsonian, plans to feature Rancho Camulos and the Del Valle family prominently in an exhibit scheduled to open in July 2016. The exhibit, entitled “American Journeys,” will focus on stories of immigration and migration in our nation’s history.
One third of the exhibit will focus on Camulos and the Del Valle family between the years 1870 and the early 1880s. NMAH curators are particularly interested in exploring religious life at Camulos and the Native American laborers who worked here.
Ygnacio Del Valle, owner of the rancho in the mid-1800s
Rancho Camulos Musuem is in the process of reviewing the list of artifacts NMAH is interested in borrowing for the exhibit.
Rancho Camulos, famed as the inspiration for Helen Hunt Jackson’s influential 19th-century novel, “Ramona,” is located at the western edge of the Santa Clarita Valley, 10 miles west of Interstate 5 on scenic Highway 126. The Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit.
NMAH, at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., is home to more than three million national artifacts, including the original Star Spangled Banner, Abe Lincoln’s top hat and Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the film “The Wizard of Oz.”
For information about the Rancho Camulos Museum visit RanchoCamulos.org.
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