Newspapers Announce the Founding of Meher Mount - 1946

October 10, 2021Margaret Magnus

For $42,500 – or about $608,250 in today’s prices – the New Life Foundation acquired the Sulphur Mountain property, now known as Meher Mount, on July 31, 1946.

At least two of the area newspapers carried news of the purchase:

• “Shri Meher Baba to Establish Center in Upper Ojai Valley” (The Ojai, August 9, 1946) and

• “Baba Will Start New Foundation” (Santa Paula Chronicle, August 13, 1946).

The Ojai article began, “Of interest to the numerous valley residents who follow the history and development of the numerous religious groups that are prominent in the world today… is the news that Shri Meher Baba will come to Ojai from Europe within a few weeks to establish a center of his New Life Foundation up on Sulphur Mountain.”