Guy B. Woodward Museum of Western Culture
1886 Verlaque House
645 Main Street, Ramona
760-789-7644
This a fascinating old French Provincial mansion filled with the history of San Diego cowboy -- not Spanish ranchero -- pioneering. What's special is they bought the entire turn-of-the-century Golden Eagle Ranch complex and rebuilt it here, plank by plank. So you've got a real cowboys' bunkhouse, plus other must-haves of ranch life: the beehouse, millinery shop, barn, post office, hobby shop, old-fashioned hairdresser, medicine wagon, tack room, blacksmith shop. Not to mention the water pump (where folks would go to fill the tub to bathe) in the kitchen. No faucets or bathrooms back then. Kenneth Woodward, son of Ramona's famous historian, manages the place.
Guy B. Woodward Museum of Western Culture
1886 Verlaque House
645 Main Street, Ramona
760-789-7644
This a fascinating old French Provincial mansion filled with the history of San Diego cowboy -- not Spanish ranchero -- pioneering. What's special is they bought the entire turn-of-the-century Golden Eagle Ranch complex and rebuilt it here, plank by plank. So you've got a real cowboys' bunkhouse, plus other must-haves of ranch life: the beehouse, millinery shop, barn, post office, hobby shop, old-fashioned hairdresser, medicine wagon, tack room, blacksmith shop. Not to mention the water pump (where folks would go to fill the tub to bathe) in the kitchen. No faucets or bathrooms back then. Kenneth Woodward, son of Ramona's famous historian, manages the place.
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