Wells Fargo Museum

The Wells Fargo Museums are scattered throughout the country and one is located in Old Town San Diego State Park. The museum was furnished by the Wells Fargo agent's office. Exhibits on display in the museum collection including 30 stagecoaches shipping to Wells Fargo in 1867, a gold watch given as a reward for the return of stolen money and a panoramic painting of San Diego from 1855. The Wells Fargo stagecoaches were pulled by six horses and loaded up with gold. These coaches traveled across the American frontier. Over the years, the Wells Fargo company grew to be one of the largest banks in the country. The beginning was in New York in 1852 when Henry Wells, William Fargo and several others joined together on a banking expedition to California. They were headed for gold and silver and by 1888, Well, Fargo and Company had become a part of the American landscape. The museum attempts to share this history with visitors and to share the values of security, reliability, innovation and progress that made the company strong. There are nine Wells Fargo Museums across the United States. San Diego's museum is set in a building that looks like something out of the Old West and features two authentic telegraph machines.