Geo Cache at Susanna Bixby Bryant Museum

Time Line
1875:
John Bixby purchases a parcel of land from Bernardo Yorba's Rancho Cañon deSanta Ana.
1911:
After Bixby's death, his daughter, Susanna Bixby Bryant, builds a home on the property and assumes management of the ranch's cattle business and citrus groves.
1927:
Susanna Bixby Bryant establishes a botanic garden as a memorial to her father, and 200 acres of the ranch are developed as Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.
1946:
Susanna Bixby Bryant dies. The property is distributed to her son and daughter, and the ranch is managed by Ernest Bryant III (grandson of Susanna Bixby Bryant).
1951:
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is moved to Claremont College.
1978:
The ranch is sold to developers.
1983:
The site is annexed by the City of Yorba Linda.
1997:
Through the joint efforts of the City of Yorba Linda, Yorba Linda Heritage Museum and Historical Society, Pacific Heritage Development and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, the ranch house is renovated and dedicated as the Susanna Bixby Bryant Ranch House and Museum and now serves as the home of the Yorba Linda Heritage Museum and Historical Society



More about the museum

The museum consists of 2500 square feet of vintage room furnishings, from the late 1800s to 1930, including 5 museum rooms covering the history of the botanic garden, ranching, citrus, water wars, Cajon Canal/zanjeros, bee industry, Yorba family artifacts and mementos including textiles, Argentine gaucho exhibit, baby mastodon jaws, Yorba Linda Indians artifacts, transportation in the area at the time, the history of Yorba to Yorba Linda, kitchen primitives, mini medical museum, surname, subject, locality indices.