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 a copy of a fountain in Cordova, moved three hundred feet in 1922 and rededicated 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. No state plaque stands here; the bronze is the fountain's own.

What the plaque says

"This Fountain" A replica of one in Cordova, Spain; was built about 1812-14 and was part of the water system in San Fernando Mission Garden. 100 years later this garden was the property of Mr. Leslie C. Brand, who donated a part of it to Los Angeles for a park. When the Los Angeles Park Department undertook to restore the Mission Garden in Brand Park, this fountain was presented to Los Angeles by Mr. Brand; it was moved bodily from its former location, a distance of 300 feet, to its present site. July 4, 1922

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission San Fernando Rey de España — steps away
  The seventeenth Alta California mission, founded at the Tataviam village of Achoicominga, with the largest adobe building in the state standing beside it.
• The Cascades — 4.0 mi
  The concrete chute where the Los Angeles Aqueduct arrives, and where forty thousand people watched the Owens Valley come south in 1913.
• Oak of the Golden Dream — 7.2 mi
  Gold was found in California here in 1842, six years before Sutter's Mill, and the oak it was found under is still standing.
• Pioneer Oil Refinery — 7.5 mi
  The first commercially successful refinery in the West, built in 1876 to take the crude coming down the pipeline from Pico Canyon.

More markers nearby

• Mission San Fernando Rey de España — steps away
• Rómulo Pico Adobe (Ranchito Rómulo) — 0.3 mi
• Griffith Ranch — 3.2 mi
• San Fernando Cemetery — 3.5 mi