Lang Hotel Foundation
Soledad Canyon

Sept. 5, 2001: Alan Bofenkamp, first vice president of the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, points out the foundation of the Lang Hotel, an inn and health spa with sulfurous springs (thus the local name, Sulphur Springs) built by homesteader and entrepreneur John Lang in 1871. The area became known as "Lang," and a train station bearing the name was erected adjacent to the hotel in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad came through the area.

Lang's hotel burned down in the first decade of the 20th Century and a warehouse was built atop it; the warehouse also did not last.

A corner of the hotel was located where Bofenkamp is kneeling.

Photo by Leon Worden.

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