Glennville Adobe

{{short description|California Historical Landmark}}

{{Infobox historic site

| image = GlennvilleAdobeKern.jpeg

| caption = Glennville Adobe in 1940

| location = 7977 Highway 155, Woody, California, in Kern County, California

| designation1 = California

| designation1_offname = Glennville adobe

| designation1_date = October 17, 1951

| designation1_number = 495

| coordinates = {{coord|35.7265694444444|-118.7007|type:landmark_region:US-CA|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

}}

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The Glennville Adobe is a California Historical Landmark number 495 in Kern County, California. The house is the oldest in Kern County, built about 1858. The adobe became a California State Historical Landmark No. 495 on October 17, 1951. The house is located at 7977 Highway 155, Woody, California. The house was built by Thomas Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald owned a trading post nearby on an Indian trail when he built the adobe brick house.{{Cite web |url=https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/495 |title=California parks, Glennville adobe |access-date=2020-12-02 |archive-date=2020-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225021128/https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/495 |url-status=live }} Since the 1950s the Glennville Adobe has been used as a Fire Department substation.[https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt7h4nd5d3/ calisphere.org ] Woody is a small town 7 miles west of the larger town of Glennville, California, north of Bakersfield, California.

• California State Historical Landmark reads:

:NO. 495 GLENNVILLE ADOBE - This is Kern County's oldest residence, built before the Civil War by Thomas Fitzgerald as a trading post at the junction of two Indian trails. The present Greenhorn Road follows the east-west trail (later the McFarland Toll Road) to the Kern River mining districts. The town was named in 1857 after James Madison Glenn, an early settler. {{Cite web |url=https://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-495 |title=californiahistoricallandmarks.com # 495 |access-date=2020-12-02 |archive-date=2021-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419033506/https://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-495 |url-status=live }}