for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
Surrey Inn
Saugus, California
Saugus was named for the Massachusetts birthplace of local land owner Henry Mayo Newhall. Also known as "Surrey," the town took shape in 1887 when the Saugus Train Station was erected at the approximate site of the old Newhall Depot. (The town of Newhall and its depot were established in 1876 near the intersection of present-day San Fernando Road and Magic Mountain Parkway. The town and depot picked up and moved two miles south, to Sixth Street and Railroad Avenue, in January-February 1878.)Saugus station master Ore W. Bercaw opened the two-story Surrey Inn, seen in this 1920's photograph, in 1911. In 1915, the Surrey Post Office was renamed Saugus, and the Surrey name faded away. No one seems to know where it had come from in the first place, except that the post office bore the name when it was built in 1891.
AL1924: 9600 dpi jpeg from 300 dpi jpeg of original photograph
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