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THE MUSEUM opened at this site in 1991 after a number of moves in search of a permanent home. For many years, however, the Historical Association had been collecting pictures and other research materials, as well as many artifacts which illustrate life in San Gabriel through its long history.
THE HAYES HOUSE. (Open Sat. - Sun., 1-4pm (626) 308-3223) This small Victorian House built in 1887 by Milton Scott Wilson, whose family lived in it for the next 97 years. Wilson was Justice of the Peace for San Gabriel Township, so many weddings took place in the parlor. In 1904, his daughter, Mary Letitia, married Edwin Hayes, who was the Agent at the Southern Pacific Depot until his retirement in 1941. He was also a member of the first City Council in 1913. Their daughter, Mary Ruth Hayes (1907-1990), was born in this house and lived here all her life. She was a teacher and later District Library and Audio Visual Coordinator in the San Gabriel School District. She left the house and its contents to the Historical Association, which moved it to this site. It reflects the lives of one family in San Gabriel for nearly 100 years.
THE JAIL. A small stone milk house on the Wilson-Hayes property was used as the jail when Saturday night in the taverns along Mission Drive got too wild and arrests were made by Judge Wilson's son, Deputy Sheriff George Lee Wilson. Prisoners were held here until they could be taken in to the Los Angeles County Jail on Monday morning. It was used as a playhouse by Mary Ruth Hayes as a child and later as a study by her father after his retirement.
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