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Glennville Adobe

Glennville Adobe

California Historical Landmark

The Glennville Adobe is a California Historical Landmark number 495 in Kern County, California. The house is the oldest in Kern County, built about 1858. The adobe became a California State Historical Landmark No. 495 on October 17, 1951. The house is located at 7977 Highway 155, Woody, California. The house was built by Thomas Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald owned a trading post nearby on an Indian trail when he built the adobe brick house.[1] Since the 1950s the Glennville Adobe has been used as a Fire Department substation.[2] Woody is a small town 7 miles west of the larger town of Glennville, California, north of Bakersfield, California.

  • California State Historical Landmark reads:
NO. 495 GLENNVILLE ADOBE - This is Kern County's oldest residence, built before the Civil War by Thomas Fitzgerald as a trading post at the junction of two Indian trails. The present Greenhorn Road follows the east-west trail (later the McFarland Toll Road) to the Kern River mining districts. The town was named in 1857 after James Madison Glenn, an early settler. [3]
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Glennville Adobe Historical Marker

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References

  1. [1]
    California parks, Glennville adobe
  2. [2]
    calisphere.org
  3. [3]
    californiahistoricallandmarks.com # 495
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