“Where the Visitor is Made to Feel Perfectly at Home”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Two

“In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part One

“All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five

“Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four

“The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857

“Before This Historical Graveyard is Past All Hope of Preservation”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Three

“Let Us At Least Draw the Line at Neglect and Desecration of the Cemeteries”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Two

“All Those Who Have Loved Ones Among the Dead of Old Calvary Will Seek for Them a New Resting Place”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part One

“Well, The Cemetery Affair Has Been Settled At Last”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Seven

“A Trip Through the Cemeteries Demonstrates the Fact that Forgetfulness Soon Follows Dissolution”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Six

The Homestead Blog

Getting Schooled: A Donation of a La Puente Grammar School Diploma for Hillard Cain Durfee, June 1919

Getting Schooled with “The Sphinx,” An Ellis Villa College Newspaper, Los Angeles, 12 March 1885

Getting Schooled with a Student Memory Book, Puente Union High School, 1925

On This Day/Getting Schooled: “A Rural Life Survey of the La Puente School District,” 1930

Getting Schooled/Read All About It Two-Fer with “The Siren,” Boyle Heights Junior High School, 18 January 1923

Getting Schooled at Compton School, 1908

Getting Schooled with Los Angeles County’s Public School Origins, 1854-1855

Getting Schooled at Puente Union High School, 1928

Getting Schooled at L.A. High, ca. late 1870s

“Where the Visitor is Made to Feel Perfectly at Home”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Two

“In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part One

“All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five

“Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four

“The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857

“Before This Historical Graveyard is Past All Hope of Preservation”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Three

“Let Us At Least Draw the Line at Neglect and Desecration of the Cemeteries”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Two

“All Those Who Have Loved Ones Among the Dead of Old Calvary Will Seek for Them a New Resting Place”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part One

“Well, The Cemetery Affair Has Been Settled At Last”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Seven

“A Trip Through the Cemeteries Demonstrates the Fact that Forgetfulness Soon Follows Dissolution”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Six