Bottle Village is a remarkable twentieth-century California folk art environment created entirely from discarded objects. In 1956, Tressa Prisbrey, then nearly 60 years old, began building a fanciful village of shrines, walkways, sculptures, and buildings from recycled items and discards from the local dump. She worked for 25 years creating one structure after another to house her collections. Today, Bottle Village consists of 13 buildings and 20 sculptures, and it was the first folk-art environment in the county to be recognized as a State Historical Landmark.
