Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures
> NEWHALL
George Campton's General Store
Newhall, California


Click image to enlarge

Born in July of 1839 in the British West Indies, George Campton emigrated to the United States during the Civil War and married a 19-year-old native Californian named Gregeria. He opened Newhall's first general store at the junction of modern-day Bouquet Canyon Road and Magic Mountain Parkway in September 1876. A year and a half later, Campton and the rest of Newhall picked up and moved two miles south, to the corner of Railroad Avenue and Eighth Streets. Campton's store housed the Newhall Post Office.

Campton remodeled his store a few times during the 1880s and 1890s (after the move). This photograph shows the store the way it originally appeared in the late 1870s and early 1880s, with his name on a separate piece of wood above the facade as seen here. The building that's visible at left is Mike Powell's Palace Saloon.

Further reading: George Campton biography in "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World," 1889.


AP0615: 19,200 dpi jpeg from copy print | Same as AP0414.
GEORGE CAMPTON
Newhall 1870s-90s

See Also:
• Railroad Avenue
Biography 1889
thumbnail
Campton Story by Pollack
thumbnail
House

thumbnail
Newhall ~1879

thumbnail
Store ~1879

thumbnail
Store Explodes 1882

thumbnail
Ver. 3 (1880s) x2

thumbnail
Ver. 4 (1890s)

thumbnail
Billhead 1892

thumbnail
Interior 1908


Obituary
RETURN TO TOP ]   RETURN TO MAIN INDEX ]   PHOTO CREDITS ]   BIBLIOGRAPHY ]   BOOKS FOR SALE ]
SCVHistory.com is another service of SCVTV, a 501c3 Nonprofit • Site contents ©SCVTV
The site owner makes no assertions as to ownership of any original copyrights to digitized images. However, these images are intended for Personal or Research use only. Any other kind of use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication in any medium or format, public exhibition, or use online or in a web site, may be subject to additional restrictions including but not limited to the copyrights held by parties other than the site owner. USERS ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions and/or paying associated fees necessary for the proposed use.