On March 15, 1942, naturalist and hotel owner Emery M. Whilton opened the Florafaunium in Lebec, a unique museum showcasing one of the most complete collections of California plant and animal life ever assembled. One of the more unusual footnotes in local history, Whilton’s Florafaunium was a public-private museum that displayed hundreds of taxidermied animals and birds along with thousands ...

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