Brand Park (Memory Garden)

The register calls this a picturesque preservation of mission atmosphere, which is one way to describe a workyard. Two brick fountains from the mission water system stand here, one of them a copy of a fountain in Cordoba, moved three hundred feet in 1922 and rededicated with speeches by Leslie C. Brand, the developer who gave the city the land. North of the community center sit the stone boilers of an 1818 soap works, the last one left. Tataviam, Tongva and Chumash people held at the mission built all of it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Santa Monica Pier — 18 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 19 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 24 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.

More markers nearby

• Mission San Fernando Rey de España — steps away
• Rómulo Pico Adobe (Ranchito Rómulo) — 0.3 mi
• San Fernando Cemetery — 3.5 mi
• The Cascades — 4.0 mi