Deukmejian Wilderness Park Historic Stone Barn
1 Video View·Oct 8, 2020
It feels like wine country in the South of France but it's the property of a French family's vineyard started in the 1890s! All that remains is an old stone barn what was burned right after prohibition but able to be rebuilt and used by the Le Mesnager family who lived here until 1960. City of Glendale maintains it now as picnic area and many great hiking trails.
Hi, it's Pat Patterson with the Best of Los Angeles Award. Where the heck am I?
South of France, Tuscany, Italian wine country. It's Glendale up in the San Gabriel Valley just
off the 210, the Duke Magian Wilderness. A place to go this weekend, during the week,
anytime. It'll stir crazy. And this is the famous Leibniz-Naguerre barn built in 1914.
Vineyard up here. Family, French family had this acreage for years. They lived here about in 1898,
lived here until 1960. I've actually talked to people that used to play here when they were
kids. Had a great place. Tragic tale was just as Prohibition was being repealed.
The family reopened the vineyard and fire hit the barn. Big flood that year.
They built dams since then, but everything survived except the roof. So they were able
to rebuild it, move back in in 1937, and the family lived here until 1960. So let's look
around the Duke Magian Wilderness a little bit. Great place to hike. Great place to get out and
walk around. Social distancing and masks, of course, required. Duke Magian Wilderness will
show you where it is. Pat Patterson with the Best of Los Angeles Award. Talk to you soon.