The KHTI’s main purpose is to provide rentable event sites to historical re-enactment and related groups within California.  Our primary event site is centrally located at the Yosemite foothills, between the cities of Merced and Mariposa, off of Route 140.

The KHTI was incorporated in the State of California in 1993 as a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation with the original goal of raising money for purchasing and improving land for use by medieval re-creation groups.  We were able to purchase our primary site in 2016, and have been shifting our focus from exclusively fundraising with the goal of purchasing land parcels, to the development of our primary site, as a rental property for historical re-enactment events by our local communities, as our primary focus.  The solicitation and management of these assets is overseen by a Board of Directors, who are known formally and collectively as Kingdom Historical Trust, Inc. or KHTI. However, we still call ourselves the Land Fund; that’s what we are.

For legal reasons, as we will describe, the KHTI is the immediate descendant of the “West Kingdom Land Fund” which was started in the early 1970’s, in what became the Society for Creative Anachronism, or as it is  more commonly known as the “SCA”, Inc.  The KHTI was eventually formed to place a legal corporate separation between the SCA, Inc. and land ownership, and to provide more local control of the Land Fund. By having this “space” we gain some protection. If the SCA is sued, only the SCA’s assets can be attached. If KHTI is sued, only KHTI’s assets can be taken.  The KHTI and the SCA have a very close relationship, with clear boundaries, to keep the two entities clear and separate in the eyes of the Law.  While the KHTI has a very close relationship with the SCA, we welcome site rentals from any of the related communities or anyone who is interested in renting a lovely property for some time in the future!