Señor Eugene Plummer, remembered as Hollywood’s oldest resident, once owned 942 acres in the heart of the city, including land later occupied by the Ambassador Hotel and much of La Brea and Santa Monica Boulevards.
A gifted storyteller, he recalled California’s Spanish days and settled in the Cahuenga Valley in 1869, later marrying Maria Amparo Lamoureux of Rancho Los Feliz, with whom he had a daughter, Frances. After a heart attack, he died on May 19, 1943. Though his name never appeared on the family stone, Plummer’s legacy endures through Plummer Park, a reminder of Hollywood’s frontier roots.
GARDEN OF THE EXODUS (SECT. 13, LOT 417, GRAVE 4)
