Mission Peak Heritage Foundation


Preserving Local History

  Mission Peak Heritage Foundation History

Robert B. Fisher, M.D., founded Mission Peak Heritage Foundation (MPHF) in Fremont, California in 1972. He wanted to preserve historical sites, pioneer family histories and local antiquities. The Foundation’s purpose is to preserve those historic resources which represent the heritage of Alameda County’s Washington Township. The township formally included the towns of Warm Springs, Mission San Jose, Irvington, Centerville, Niles, Newark, Decoto and Alvarado.  

Mission Peak Heritage Foundation is a non-profit corporation endorsed by the council action of Fremont, Newark and Union City.

  Mission Peak Heritage Foundation Today

In years prior, MPHF was involved in preserving many historic properties. Other properties that were preserved are the Patterson House at Ardenwood Farm and Rancho Higuera.

Today the primary focus of the non-profit Mission Peak Heritage Foundation is to manage the historic Shinn House and Archive/Museum 

We host teas, events, and tours. Shinn Historical Park & Arboretum is the last 4 acres of the historic Shinn's Nurseries and Shinn Ranch. At the Shinn House we tell the stories of the Shinn family who came to the Washington Township in Southern Alameda County in 1856. 

CONTACT US

 

BOARD MEMBERS 

 

President: Joan Butler  (510) 795-0891 joaniebutler@att.net

Vice-President: Al Minard (510) 552-4839   aminard957@comcast.net

Secretary: mphf.secretary@gmail.com

Treasurer: mphf.treasurer@gmail.com


Mail Us:

MISSION PEAK HERITAGE FOUNDATION
P.O. BOX 3078, FREMONT, CALIFORNIA 94539

Visit Us at the Park:

1251 Peralta Blvd, Fremont CA
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Our now historic website was written in HTML and was designed by Tim Druly (timdruly.com). Thanks are also due to Jacline Derrider who took over after Tim. We appreciate their work to get us on the internet.

Some day missionpeakreporter.org will disappear, but for now it seems to have been re-born. It will no longer be updated. See the original website of Mission Peak Heritage Foundation on the Wayback Machine. The first snapshot is dated 2013.