Anadromous adult steelhead trout found in Topanga Creek in 2009. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) created the Topanga Creek Stream Team in 1996 to harness the passion of some of the local volunteers who are...
Anadromous adult steelhead trout found in Topanga Creek in 2009. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) created the Topanga Creek Stream Team in 1996 to harness the passion of some of the local volunteers who are...
Barn owl raised by Jon Swenson, brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor). Picture was taken at family property on Fontaine Road in Topanga circa 1960.
Children of Anderson, Haeggquist, Needham, Spiese, Rosenquist, Hoffman and Zack families at the birthday party of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) in 1952 at the front yard of the Swenson family house on Fontaine Road in Topanga. Sitting on the...
Cabins stud hillside at Kneen's Kamp with Katherine Kneen standing in the picture taken circa 1920. In 1915, Thomas W. Kneen, maternal grandfather of Lynn Dickhoff (photo donor), purchased property on the high way north of Topanga Woods on the...
Unknown children standing in front of the little red schoolhouse at the hairpin turn north of the school road in Topanga, circa 1920. Schoolhouse was converted from a barn built approximately in 1893. Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo...
Children playing a game outside the schoolhouse. The Spanish style Topanga school was built in 1925 with classroom, stage and indoor restrooms, later became the American Legion Hall (now Froggy's Topanga Fish Market). Picture taken circa 1926.
Cars parked along Topanga Highway for Christian Science church services. Christian Science was the first denomination to build a church in Topanga. In the early 1920s Christian Science practitioner Mable Lewis rented a cottage at Kneen's Kamp and...
David Swenson (left), brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) with cousin Mark Herranen and family goat Dolly at the family home on Fontaine Road in Topanga in 1952.
Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), on horseback on old Eden Drive in Topanga, circa 1928. Photo taken by his English friend Jane B. Reed.
Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), sitting on cabin porch in 1952 next to the original ranch sign that reads "Trujillo Ranch, 1886". The sign was made in 1935 and later incorporated into the Trujillo Ranch entry gate built by his...
Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), standing in front of the old ranch house in Topanga with his dog and English friend, Jane B. Reed, whose husband, Earl Reed, took the photo. The English couple was living in Calabasas,...
Postcard photo of an aerial view of Eden Ranch, Pine Tree Circles, from south Topanga looking North, Topanga, circa 1930. Photo from the historic Topanga photo postcards collection donated to the Topanga Historical Society by Allison Acker, a...
Harriet and John Swenson, parents of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor), bought the house on Fontaine Road in Topanga in 1950 where the family lived for over 50 years, originally leasing it for a year because the owner John Aerick, who built the...
Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) standing in front of the family house on Fontaine Road in 1950 with her parents and brothers. Pictured from the left in the front row: Nancy and her brother Jon; with her mother Harriet, father John, and brother...
Family portrait taken at Trujillo Ranch homestead centennial party in 1986. Standing outside on Trujillo Ranch, first row (bottom) from the left: Rose Wiley (photo donor,) and husband Bob Wiley; with their four children and their spouses, and two...
Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) sitting on a fallen oak tree with her father and three brothers on Fontaine Road in Topanga circa 1960. Pictured from the left: David, Willy, Nancy, John (father), and Jon. The family called the fallen oak tree...
