Local Museum Open Sunday For Tours

     The Minnie Hill Palmer Homestead Acre, where the Virginia Watson Chatsworth History Museum is located at 10385 Shadow Oak Drive, will be open for tours from 1-4  p.m. Sunday, August 7.

     Chatsworth Park South is closed but the museum  (at the front of the park)  is open.

There is plenty of free parking in the area across the driveway from the building .

There is no admission charge to visit either the museum or the beautiful gardens.

Docents from the Chatsworth Historical Society will give the tours.

     Most of the land that became Chatsworth Park South was part of a 230 acre ranch

that was homesteaded before Chatsworth had a name.  The ranch belonged to James David and Rhoda Jane Hill, parents of Minnie Hill Palmer who inherited the land.

Minnie’s parents and other family members,  worked the ranch and sold dynamite to the people who built the three railroad tunnels through the mountains,

     The museum has many pictures of the pioneers residents of the area and the circa 1911 built cottage is furnished in the same theme.

     The property belongs to the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and

Parks with the Chatsworth Historical Society serving as Conservator.

     For more information call (818) 882-5614.