United States Rabbit Experimental Station

The federal government ran exactly one research station devoted to rabbits, and it stood here, on five acres A. B. Miller gave it in March 1928. Fontana was rabbit country, and the animal was cheap protein on the edge of the Depression: the station worked on breeding, feeding, disease and hutch design, and sent its findings out to backyard producers across the country. Fontana bought the property in 1965 and made it a senior center, a quiet second life for a laboratory.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 5.4 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 8.8 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Cajon Pass — 15 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.

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