Mixville (Los Angeles, California)

 place with historical importance, interesting place, film/video production studio/facility, historical layer / disappeared object, movie ranch

Tom Mix's Mixville ca 1914-1925

In Edendale (between Glendale Blvd. and Teviot), silent film mega star Tom Mix built a shooting set called Mixville. Some sources refer to it as 9 acres, some as 12 acres, and other sources as 14 acres (still researching this).

Mix's two employers, William Selig (who referred to it as Selig Ranch), then the Wm Fox (who called it Fox Ranch by 1915) leased the property for exclusively Mix's use from Winna Brown,( known as the Winna Brown ranch).

Loaded with western props and furnishings, it has been described as a "complete frontier town, with a dusty street, hitching rails, a saloon, jail, bank, doctor's office, surveyor's office, and the simple frame houses typical of the early Western era." Near the back of the lot an Indian village of lodges was ringed by miniature plaster mountains which on screen were said to be "ferociously convincing." The set also included a simulated desert, large corral and a ranch house with no roof, to facilitate interior shots.

Eventually Mix bought the southern most 4.5 acres and later moved his production company with Fox to the huge Fox Movitone lot in West L.A. (now Fox Studios).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mix
Exact size and dimensions and placement pending verification.