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Historic El Camino Real

NORTHERN SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
HISTORICAL MUSEUMS AND SOCIETIES

1. Camp Roberts Military Museum
Location of Historical Societies and Museums
2. Mission San Miguel

3. Rios-Caledonia Adobe

4. Estrella Warbird Museum

5. Paso Robles Historical Society

6. Paso Robles Pioneer Museum

7. Cambria Historical Society

8. Templeton Historical Museum

9. Atascadero Historical Society

10. Santa Margarita Historical Society

Thanks to some of our divine associates:

Most of these Museums are FREE

Visit each of the museum gift shops where you will find an array of books, shirts, postcards and many other gift items.

These museums and societies are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and are supported by donations and gift shop sales.

Need a guided tour or special arrangement? Please contact one of the museums.

Picnic grounds are available at most sites.

Be sure to check out some of the unique, upcoming events hosted by each of these museums and societies.

Donations and/or membership in these organizations are encouraged and appreciated.

Paso Robles Pioneer Musuem

The Paso Robles PioneerMuseum is a wonderful collection of visual and written history. Included are artifacts from early Indian settlements, vintage farm and ranching equipment, a barbed-wire collection, antique vehicles, clothing, toys, a Paderewski (famous pianist) display and hundreds of items from pioneer homes and businesses. A one-room schoolhouse, built in 1886 and restored by museum volunteers, typical of the many that dotted the countryside in Northern San Luis Obispo County, is a real treat.
2010 Riverside Avenue
(South of the Mid-State Fairgrounds)
P.O. Box 461, Paso Robles, CA 93447
Phone: (805) 239-4556
Open Thurs. – Sun. 1 to 4 p.m.
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Paso Robles Historical Society

The Paso Robles Historical Society is a nonprofit organization that seeks and encourages the development of archives and serves as a repository for records and other materials. The Paso Robles Historical Society has temporarily relocated on the Pioneer Museum grounds after the historic Carnegie Library in the downtown city park received extensive damage from a major earthquake in 2003.
2010 Riverside Avenue
(On the Pioneer Museum grounds)
P.O. Box 2875, Paso Robles, CA 93447
Phone: (805) 238-4996
Open Thurs. – Sun. 1 to 4 p.m.

Templeton Historical Museum Society

The Templeton Historical Museum Society was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1989, the realization of a dream of nearly 25 years earlier. The Horstman house, built by Albert Horstman, a prominent Templeton businessman in the 1920s, was donated to the society in 1994 and serves as the museum where local memorabilia and photographs are displayed. Templeton’s original railroad warehouse (behind the house) contains a 1925 Model T in original condition, an antique carriage and other items too large to put into the house.
309 Main Street, P.O. Box 788
Templeton, CA 93465
Phone: (805) 434-0807
Open Fri. – Sun. 1 to 4 p.m.
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Atascadero Historical Society

Chartered in 1965, the society maintained a museum for over 30 years in the Atascadero City Administration Building’s lower rotunda until the 2003 earthquake forced its closure. Since the earthquake, the society has kept its 1919 Colony House open. The house, restored and surrounded by a unique demonstration garden and the Hattie Prather Rose Garden, is located off East Mall next to the parking lot of the historic city hall.
6600 Lewis Avenue, P.O. Box 1047
Atascadero, CA 93423
Phone: (805) 466-8341
Open Wed. and Sat. 1 to 4 p.m.
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Cambria Historical Society

Cambria Historical Museum

The Cambria Historical Museum is located in the Guthrie-Bianchini House, one of the oldest houses in Cambria. After being empty for thirty years, the house was purchased by The Cambria Historical Society in 2001 and restored to its former glory. The museum opened in late 2008.
Burton Drive and Center Street, P.O. Box 906
Cambria, CA 93428
Phone: (805) 927-2891
Open Fri. – Mon. noon to 3 p.m.
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Santa Margarita Historical Society

The vision of the Santa Margarita Historical Society is to make our local history available on-line with hardcopy held at our public library located on the corner of I & Murphy Streets in Santa Margarita. Plans call for restoration of the small county jail building and documenting a number of the community’s historic buildings, both those that are still standing and those that have disappeared over the decades. The Society is recording the stories of “old timers” to help ensure that the history of the town, which grew out of the Mexican Land Grant Rancho Santa Margarita, is not lost.
I and Murphy Streets, P.O. Box 165
Santa Margarita, CA 93453
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SOME ANNUAL EVENTS
Atascadero

Colony Home Tour – April

Colony Days – Third Saturday in October

Cambria

Heritage Day – Last Sunday in June

Paso Robles

Air Show – Second weekend in September

Pioneer Day Parade – Saturday prior to October 12

Pioneer Museum’s Paso Gathering – First weekend in November
San Miguel

Mission Fiesta Days – Third Sunday of September

Candlelight Tour of the Old Adobe

Santa Margarita

Days of the Don

Templeton

4th of July Parade

Slo Museums

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