Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> It appears that Mt Hermon has been affiliated with
> a religious group for more than a century.
>
> In 1841, California's first water-powered sawmill
> was built at the junction of Bean Creek and
> Zayante Creek by Peter Lassen, Isaac Graham, J.
> Majors, and F. Hoeger. Mount Hermon, known as
> "Tuxedo Junction" prior to 1906, was a stop on the
> South Coast Pacific Railroad from Alameda to Santa
> Cruz.[3] Hotel Tuxedo was on the property; the
> hotel was purchased and renamed the Zayante Inn on
> April 14, 1906, by a group which later became the
> Mount Hermon Association, Inc. The land was to be
> used as a Christian retreat center, whose
> dedication day, known as "The Great Day", was July
> 22, 1906; the event was held at the Zayante Inn
> with 1400 people in attendance. Speaking at the
> dedication was Dr. Reuben A. Torrey, President of
> the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois.
>
> Complete page:
> [en.wikipedia.org]
> nia
>

Mount Hermon goes back a bit further than that, I think.
Mount Hermon was a boys Christian school located in Northfield, Mass. It was established by Dwight Moody, the founder of the Moody Bible Institute (Chicago), in the late 1800s. Somewhere in the 1970's/1980's it merged with the Northfield School for Girls (for financial reasons) and went coed.
I believe that the original Mt. Hermon campus is currently for sale. The owners of Hobby Lobby bought the Northfield campus a few years back, with the idea of establishing the C. S. Lewis University. Apparently, that effort failed, and the school is on the market.
Northfield, MA is a nice small "typical" New England village and the point where Pan Am Railway hands over freight traffic to the New England Central.