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	Exterior view of heavyweight boxing champion [[James J. Jeffries]]'s Barn. Jeffries built a large ranch home and a barn on his 107-acre ranch property, paying $2,000 down for the property and assuming a $10,000 mortgage. In the beginning, only ten acres were placed under cultivation but after a few years, he developed another 93 acres where he planted alfalfa. In 1931 Jeffries converted his dairy barn into a gym where he trained boxers and worked as a fight promoter. He promoted many fights out of "Jeffries Barn", also known as Jeffries Center, as well as holding Thursday night boxing matches until his death in 1953. After his death, the barn was dismantled and moved to Knott's Berry Farm amusement park.		Exterior view of heavyweight boxing champion [[James J. Jeffries]]'s Barn. [[Jeffries Barn]]

	~~Knotts had a small boxing museum inside the barn, with an on-site historian, Al Nelson. Nelson died, as did the museum, in the 1960s. At one time the~~ Barn housed a Japanese doll exhibit. It is believed that it is now called the "Wild West Dancehall." There was a brass plaque that identified it as "Jeffries Barn" but no reference to whom Jeffries was. The plaque may still exist, perhaps on the back wall of the structure.

	[[Category: James J. Jeffries Gallery]]		[[Category: James J. Jeffries Gallery]]

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	Exterior view of heavyweight boxing champion [[James J. Jeffries]]'s Barn. Jeffries built a large ranch home and a barn on his 107-acre ranch property, paying $2,000 down for the property and assuming a $10,000 mortgage. In the beginning, only ten acres were placed under cultivation but after a few years, he developed another 93 acres where he planted alfalfa. In 1931 Jeffries converted his dairy barn into a gym where he trained boxers and worked as a fight promoter. He promoted many fights out of "Jeffries Barn", also known as Jeffries Center, as well as holding Thursday night boxing matches until his death in 1953. After his death, the barn was dismantled and moved to Knott's Berry Farm amusement park.		Exterior view of heavyweight boxing champion [[James J. Jeffries]]'s Barn. Jeffries built a large ranch home and a barn on his 107-acre ranch property, paying $2,000 down for the property and assuming a $10,000 mortgage. In the beginning, only ten acres were placed under cultivation but after a few years, he developed another 93 acres where he planted alfalfa. In 1931 Jeffries converted his dairy barn into a gym where he trained boxers and worked as a fight promoter. He promoted many fights out of "Jeffries Barn", also known as Jeffries Center, as well as holding Thursday night boxing matches until his death in 1953. After his death, the barn was dismantled and moved to Knott's Berry Farm amusement park.

			Knotts had a small boxing museum inside the barn, with an on-site historian, Al Nelson. Nelson died, as did the museum, in the 1960s. At one time the Barn housed a Japanese doll exhibit. It is believed that it is now called the "Wild West Dancehall." There was a brass plaque that identified it as "Jeffries Barn" but no reference to whom Jeffries was. The plaque may still exist, perhaps on the back wall of the structure.

	[[Category: James J. Jeffries Gallery]]		[[Category: James J. Jeffries Gallery]]

Ric: Exterior view of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Jeffries's Barn. Jeffries built a large ranch home and a barn on his 107-acre ranch property, paying $2,000 down for the property and assuming a $10,000 mortgage. In the beginning, only ten acres w

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Exterior view of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Jeffries's Barn. Jeffries built a large ranch home and a barn on his 107-acre ranch property, paying $2,000 down for the property and assuming a $10,000 mortgage. In the beginning, only ten acres w

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Exterior view of heavyweight boxing champion [[James J. Jeffries]]'s Barn. Jeffries built a large ranch home and a barn on his 107-acre ranch property, paying $2,000 down for the property and assuming a $10,000 mortgage. In the beginning, only ten acres were placed under cultivation but after a few years, he developed another 93 acres where he planted alfalfa. In 1931 Jeffries converted his dairy barn into a gym where he trained boxers and worked as a fight promoter. He promoted many fights out of "Jeffries Barn", also known as Jeffries Center, as well as holding Thursday night boxing matches until his death in 1953. After his death, the barn was dismantled and moved to Knott's Berry Farm amusement park.

[[Category: James J. Jeffries Gallery]]