Modeled after the chapel at Rancho Camulos — the renowned "Home of Ramona" — the chapel was built in 1926 by Robert E. Callahan as an attraction at his Mission Village in Century City. In the 1950s he moved the chapel and the rest of the village to Sierra Highway in Mint Canyon, where he established Callahan's Old West Trading Post. After his death, his widow, Marion Callahan, donated the chapel — along with a tiny red schoolhouse and other memorabilia — to the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society in 1987. It is currently one of eight historic structures at Heritage Junction Historic Park in Newhall.