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California Nursery Historical Park

by appointment only, sign up for a tour
msn@msnucleus.org

Please go to our events schedule to see special days open for tours. 

 Current exhibits include California Nursery's role in the Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915)Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (1939 and 1940); the people that made the California Nursery grow into the largest nursery along the West Coast in the 1940's; and some of the early agricultural equipment used in the fields to produce the finest trees that were exported around the world. 


California Nursery Office Museum and Vallejo Adobe:

Hours: scheduled only

Guided Tour of Park:
Learn the history of area, visit museum and other buildings

Cost:  Tours can be arranged for min of 20 people at $10 per person. 

Vallejo Adobe (inside) will be decorated in holiday houses (right).


Tour Information: Meet at the Dutch Windmill.  Learn about extravagant historic bulb shows, explore the historic rose garden and see some of the cultivars that made the cut. We will even discover a living fossil, the Dawn Redwood. Walk about on a guided tour through this 22 acre park through a unique Boxed-Tree Forest, an Experimental Orchard, and the Avenue of Palms. Tour the Vallejo Adobe, the California Nursery Office, and the newly open Packing Shed. You will learn about Jose de Jesus Vallejo, Jonas Clark, John Rock,  William Landers, Luther Burbank, Johannes and Federick Reimers, and the famous Roeding Family who influenced the history of agriculture in this state.  

The importance of this site spans from the Ohlone, Mission and Rancho Era, to the transformation of the State of California as an agricultural giant.  Learn how Niles agriculture had a strong tie to San Francisco and Fresno.

View a video produced by June Wallace showing the history of the Park and some of its major achievements in its over 150 years of existence.

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Hoot Owl Tours Monthly (Scouts and Public)
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36501 Niles Blvd, Fremont
(entrance Nursery Ave and Niles Blvd)

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