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Southern Hotel
Newhall, California

This is the only known photograph of the Southern Hotel, described by a guest as "one of the finest and best appointed establishments outside of San Francisco." It was built by Henry Mayo Newhall at the approximate intersection of San Fernando Road and Market Street in 1878, a few months after the town of Newhall picked up and moved from Bouquet Junction to its present location. According to Ruth Newhall, H.M. Newhall laid out a town square in front of the hotel, planted it with young trees, and sent in a water wagon daily to water the park.

H.M. Newhall's brother, Joshua O. Newhall, managed the hotel, and Newhall's ranch foreman, D.W. Fields, ran a general store inside it. The hotel sported a dining room, a reading room, a "ladies' parlor," and a "genteel bar" run by D.W. Boynton. The hotel burned down on October 1, 1888 and was not rebuilt. Photograph labeled by A.B. Perkins.

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