In 1927, Paramount Studios purchased a ranch on Medea Creek in the Santa Monica Mountains near Agoura Hills, between Malibu and the Conejo Valley. The studio built numerous large-scale sets on the ranch, including a huge replica of early San Francisco, an Old West town, and a Welsh mining village (built by 20th Century Fox for (1941) "How Green Was My Valley", and later redressed (with coal mine tipple removed) as a French village for use in (1943) "The Song of Bernadette", and again used for (1949) "The Inspector General"). Western town sets posed as Tombstone, Arizona, and Dodge City, Kansas, as well as Tom Sawyer's Missouri, 13th-century China, and many other locales and eras around the world.