On March 15, 1942, Emery Whilton opened up a public-private museum and hotel.  One of the weirder footnotes in local history is Emery M. Wilton’s short-lived Florafaunium, a public-private museum in Lebec. As the name implies, it housed a massive collection of stuffed animals and plants mostly na tive to California.  Whilton was born in Indiana ... The post Today In SCV History: March 15, 1942, Emery Whilton’s Florafaunium appeared first on KHTS Radio. ...read more read less