Wickham Canyon, Santa Clarita, California

Website created and maintained by Stan Walker

Looking toward the northeast at the mouth of Wickham Canyon (12/20/2008)

Sometime between the years 1930 and 1932 Eldon Blaine Wickham and his son Robert Eldon moved deep into a canyon that would eventually bear their name. Except for the years 1944-1948, Eldon lived continuously in the canyon at least until 1960 and probably until 1963, the year he died. When the canyon officially became Wickham Canyon I don't know, but for a long time people in the area called it Wickham's canyon because the Wickhams lived there.

Today, the entrance to the canyon is blocked by a fence and gate to some sort of private storage facility so there is no public access. There is someone living in a small trailer near the gate. I don't know how much of the canyon is privately owned, but it is possible that the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy owns much of the inner canyon, including the Wickham homesite, which is only a vacant lot today.

Pages:

The Wickham Family
The Larinan Family
Bill Rundberg's Memories of Wickham Canyon
History of Oil Development
Photos