DELANO, Calif. (KERO) — The Tomasa Zapata Co-op Service Station, one of the most historic buildings at Forty Acres, was found defaced with by staff on Monday morning.

An act of vandalism has taken place at a landmark part of California's labor rights movement. Staff at the historic Forty Acres site in Delano arrived Monday to find one of its most iconic buildings defaced with graffiti.

"You know this is a place where giants walked and so to see that people in our own backyards don't have as much consideration for their own history is a little disheartening,” said Executive Director of the National Chavez Center Andres Chavez.

Chavez says the 40 Acres Site off Garces Highway in Delano has been vandalized a few times in the past.

"In the 1970's during a brutal strike it was dynamited in

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