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Fillmore Historical Museum and Train Depot, 340 Main Street, Fillmore>>The Museum closes at 3pm, so check it out first when you arrive.
VC Landmarks:
#48 Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Fillmore
#157 Sespe Bunkhouse
This prefabricated railroad building is located near its original site. A Southern Pacific box car which served at the first post office in Bardsdale is set alongside the building. Edith Moore Jarrett Roderick Brown bought the building and donated it to the city as a museum. A pair of Sespe sandstone Ionic columns salvaged from the first Fillmore State Bank stand at the entranceway. When the Southern Pacific Railroad finished its line between Ventura and Los Angeles in 1887, Fillmore (named after Southern Pacific's West Coast superintendent, Jerome A. Fillmore) was established as the only train stop in the sparsely inhabited far eastern Santa Clara Valley; the town followed in 1888. The stop proved critical in supporting the local citrus and oil industries from 1910-1920. It is now the location of the Fillmore Historical Museum.
Be sure to watch some of the informative videos on their website before your visit, with pics of moving the Hinckley home and post office to this spot!
https://www.fillmorehistoricalmuseum.org/
Inside the depot building is a large mural and other interesting things to check out. You'll also find on-site the little Bardsdale Post Office, Hinckley House & Dental Office, and garage with Model A Pickup. Inside the Hinckley house is Lawrence Hinckley paintings. He attended Otis Art institute in LA, and later with his wife opened what became known at the Artist Barn, a gallery opened on November 21, 1936 and a landmark on Bard Street in Fillmore until 1961. Throughout its run, internationally known artists would visit the gallery as well as regular tourist buses which would stop on their way between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
More great stuff in the Sespe Bunkhouse by architects Greene & Greene, including an insectory.
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Filmore Train Station, 405 Main St, Fillmore, CA 93015-2011, United States,Fillmore, California
