page_title: Stagecoach Inn (California)
section_title: Exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Stagecoach Inn (California) / Exhibits
caption_attribution_description: English: Sign for the Tri-Village Complex at Stagecoach Inn in Newbury Park, CA.
context_page_description: The Stagecoach Inn in Newbury Park, California, originally known as the Grand Union Hotel, was used as a resting area for people who traveled from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Besides a hotel and stagecoach stop, it has also been used as a post office, church, restaurant and military school. It is California Historical Landmark no. 659 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It played a major role in the development of the stage line transportation network in California. The hotel was also the first business venture in the Conejo Valley.
  Today, the inn is owned by the Conejo Recreation and Park Department and operated as a historic museum. The museum includes a replica of Timber School, a carriage house and blacksmith shop, nature trail, and the 'Tri-Village', a small group of three houses: the pioneer house, the adobe, and the Chumash 'ap. There is also a gift shop located inside the museum. Volunteers operate the museum, although it is run by the Conejo Valley Historical Society. There is also a Jr. Docent program for children and teenagers aged 8–18.
context_section_description: The hotel is home to permanent exhibits such as the Carriage House and Blacksmith Shop, Anderson Exhibit Hall, Tri-Village and The Timber School. It is home to the Tri-Village which represents three historic eras in the Conejo Valley: the Newbury Pioneer House, a Spanish Adobe, and a reconstructed Chumash village. The exhibits are changing routinely. Temporary exhibits as of July 2018 include an exhibit dedicated to Jungleland USA, an exhibit of vintage dresses, and mammoth bones through the exhibit "Fossils of the Conejo Valley."
  Minerals, shells and fossils have been on display here. Chumash pictographs have also been on display here. The 4-acre surrounding park contains a collection of carriages, stagecoaches and wagons.
  Stagecoach Inn: The main part of the museum is the reconstructed 1876 hotel. Items on display relate to local history, American history, and the Victorian era. Upstairs are the private-, family- and traveler's wings. Certain rooms function as changing exhibit areas, while other rooms are displayed as they might have looked at the time of the hotel's operation. A gift shop is also located on the main floor.
  Anderson Exhibit Hall: The basement level of the hotel is accessed from a separate door, and is home to permanent displays of Chumash artifacts as well as items pertaining to the local natural history and archeology. This exhibit also houses fossils, a butterfly collection, as well as rock- and mineral exhibits.
  Nature Trail: 0.5-mile (0.8 km) path which begins at the bridge behind the hotel and ends in the Tri-Village. It follows a stream in an oak tree forest where various native plants can be seen along the trail. Interpretive signs explaining endemic flora and local history have also been put up along the trail. The trail leads to the Tri-Village Complex, an outdoor beehive oven, a restored carriage house, a windmill, and a vast display of antique ranch equipment and older carriages.
  Tri-Village Complex: The complex features three structures representing the three historic periods in which various groups inhabited the Conejo Valley: Native-Americans are represented by a reconstructed Chumash house, known as 'ap, while Mexican vaqueros are represented by an adobe house. Early European settlers are represented by a replica of Egbert Starr Newbury's original 1874 house. Furthermore, the Tri-Village is also home of an over 250 year old Sycamore tree, which is designated both Ventura County- and City of Thousand Oaks Landmarks.
  Timber School: Replica of the 1889 school which originally was located near the corner of Newbury- and Kelley Roads.
  Carriage House and Blacksmith Shop: A carriage house, windmill and former blacksmith shop are also found on the premises. The Carriage House contains numerous authentic 19th century stagecoaches, tools and farm and broom making implements.
  The premises are also home to a botanical garden, The Heritage Rose Garden, which contains over 35 species of heirloom roses dating from 1752. A memorial brick path winds through the gardens.
caption: Sign by Nature Trail to the Tri-Village Complex.
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