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Hotel at Fort Tejon (Not Built).



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Hotel at Fort Tejon.

We say this week the plans of a hotel to be built at Fort Tejon, by Mr. Geo. C. Alexander. The building is to be sixty feet front, two stories high, and will afford ample accommodation to travelers, suits [sic] of rooms being provided for ladies and families. When stages commence running on the overland mail route, passengers will find the very best accommodations at the above hotel, as Mr. Alexander is known to be a gentleman who will keep only a first class hotel. We have no doubt he will be amply repaid for his liberality and enterprise.

News story courtesy of Gerald T. Ahnert.


Webmaster's note.

According to Ridge Route historian Bonnie Ketterl Kane, George C. Alexander was serving as postmaster and justice of the peace at Fort Tejon in 1858. "His two-story building housed the post commissary and was to serve as the stage stop. It was located across the present highway from the entrance to the Fort and slightly to the south," Kane writes in "A View from the Ridge Route, Vol. 2: The Fort Tejon Era" (2002:140).

Despite the glowing announcement in the L.A. Star newspaper, Kane writes (ibid.:141), the hotel "was not built due to Mr. Alexander becoming ill."


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FORT TEJON

Inventory of State Park Collection


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Self-Guided Tour 1996

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Huell Howser Program 1999

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Hotel Plan 1858

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Ruins (Mult.)

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Rancho La Liebre 1929 (Story)

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Postcard 1930s

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Flying A Gasoline 1938

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Home Movie 1939

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Book: Old Adobes (Cullimore 1949)

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Travelogue 1949

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Old Gate Pre-1950

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Officers' Quarters ~1950s

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Headquarters Bldg. 1957 (Story)

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Brochure Pre-1967

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Enlisted Men's Barracks (Mult.)

• 1857 Earthquake (1)
• 1857 Earthquake (2)
• 1857 Earthquake (3)
• 1857 Earthquake in Harpers Weekly


PETER LEBECK

• Peter Lebeck Story


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Peter Lebeck Exhumed 1890

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Lebeck Story 1901

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Lebeck Grave 1957 (Story)

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Lebeck Oak ~1960s

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Lebeck Oak & Grave Marker x7

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Lebeck Bark x2

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Lebeck Sculpture x3

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