Plummer Park and Oldest House in Hollywood

Francisca Perez was living on this land under preemption law by 1869, before the Plummers homesteaded 160 acres of it beside Rancho La Brea in 1874. Eugene Plummer went by Eugenio and kept the manners of an old Californio don, though his father was a sea captain born in Canada. He sold the ranch off in pieces as Hollywood came up around it, and the county bought the last three acres in 1937 and let him stay until he died. The house left in 1983, hauled twenty miles west to Calabasas ahead of the wreckers.

What the plaque says

Known as the "Oldest House in Hollywood" this house was built in the 1870's by Eugene Raphael Plummer. Marked by Milly Barrett Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, January 29, 1956 Historical Landmark No. 160 California State Park Commission

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Santa Monica Pier — 13 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.

More markers nearby

• Old Trapper's Lodge — 3.7 mi
• Chatsworth Calera Site — 4.1 mi
• Los Encinos State Historic Park — 8.1 mi
• Adamson House at Malibu Lagoon State Beach — 8.8 mi