Local horseman Michael Lewis drives his mule team along a path at the first annual Hamilton Museum Founders Day last year. Anza Valley Outlook/Courtesy photo
The Hamilton Museum and Ranch Foundation will present their second annual Founders Day celebration at the museum Saturday, Sept. 14, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
The event will feature artisans and crafters, games, wagon rides, antique cars, a Dutch oven cooking contest and street food vendors.
This year's event will honor founders Lincoln and Louise Hamilton.
“In 1998 Louise Hamilton wrote in her will that it was her desire that the old house on her property be set aside to become a museum,” said event coordinator Allison Renck. “At that moment Anza had the beginnings of the Hamilton Museum and Ranch Foundation. Today both the Contreras House, Hamilton House and the surrounding 5 acres are preserved so visitors can see what Anza looked like in its early days and honor the pioneer spirit
