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northwestern corner of Lot 21 of Tract 1059 from Franklin K.

Naylor. This \ was located adjacent to a 50' x 125' lat

that already had been selected as the site of a U.S. forest

ranger station office near the street and a ranger residence and
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garage in the rear. When the ranger residence finally was built,

Hart claimed that part of the structure was located on his

property and offered to trade another piece of his land for the

lot. The offer was rejected, however, and the U.S. government

parcel became a peninsula when Hart acquired the land around it.

The remainder of Lot 21 (which by then had only a 20' frontage an

Newhall Avenue) was kept fpr: the time by Naylor, who had a small

frame house in the middle of the lot.

2. Land for the Retirement Residence.

Once Hart decided to settle permanently in Newhall, he made

plans to build a retirement residence and support buildings.

From 1925 to 1927-he attempted to purchase all available land
surrounding the hill upon which his mansion was built in order to

provide seclusion from the outside world and .wide open spaces for
his ranch. The property he acquired during these years included
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a vast hilly tract along the western extremity of the ranch, and
the land surrounding the ranger station (see Map 2: the

previously existing Hart property is outlined in blue; the new

acquisitions are outlined in red).

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