On this day in 1885, Hortense Victoria Reynier, future matriarch of the Walker family of Placerita Canyon, was born, linking two of the Santa Clarita Valley’s founding pioneer families. The daughter of Jean Joseph and Josephine Reynier, Hortense grew up on her father’s expansive vineyard and homestead near the head of Placerita Canyon. Jean Joseph had emigrated from the Champsaur ...

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