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About Calabasas, California
Calabasas is a city in the southwest corner of the San Fernando Valley and comprises a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains. The name Calabasas is derived from the Spanish calabaza, meaning “pumpkin”, “squash”, or “gourd”, but the city name is also said to mean “where the wild geese fly” in the local Native American language.
Incorporated in 1991, the city has an estimated of 23,058 residents as of the 2010 census. It is also home to The Leonis Adobe, an adobe structure in Old Town Calabasas which dates from 1844 and is one of the oldest surviving buildings in greater Los Angeles.
At the top of the Calabasas grade, which is east of Las Virgenes Road, legend has it that in 1824, a Basque rancher from Oxnard spilled a wagonload of pumpkins on the road en route to Los Angeles. The following spring, hundreds of pumpkin seeds sprouted alongside the road. The area was named Las Calabasas—the place where the pumpkins fell.
In honor of its namesake, the City of Calabasas and the Calabasas Chamber of Commerce hold an annual Pumpkin Festival in October, including carnival games, exhibits, demonstrations, and live entertainment. The festival has evolved from a small-town fair to a significant annual event. Though the current Pumpkin Festival is held at Juan Bautista de Anza Park in Calabasas, the original festival was believed to have taken place where the traveling wagon carrying pumpkins overturned and started the area’s first pumpkin patch.