Edison House

Edison House. . , This was one of several cottages built in the 1920s along present-day Magic Mountain Parkway for operators of Southern California Edison's Saugus substation. Some of the cottages were destroyed in the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster. Three were repaired in 1928; nine were rebuilt in 1929. This is probably one of the 1929 replacements ordered from a "kit home" supplier such as Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward. During World War II, artillery guns were placed around the employee cottages. In 1972, Edison sold the property, including buildings, to Newhall Land. All but this one were destroyed in a fire department exercise. It was relocated to Heritage Junction in 1989. , , original marker text: , This house was one of a group of cottages built by the Southern California Edison Company to house employees in 1919 when the Edison substation in Newhall opened. The house was moved west of Saugus in 1925 when the new substation was completed, and five other homes were built of identical design., Assistant Edison Patrolman Raymond Starbard occupied it and was credited as being the first to spread the alarm of the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster. The cottages were sold to The Newhall Land and Farming Co. on Jan. 17, 1972., The cottage was donated to the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society and moved to Heritage Junction on Jan. 18, 1989. The other Edison houses were burned by the Los Angeles County Fire Department as a training exercise.