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Tag: 1840s Los Angeles history

  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Getting the Shaft: The Workman and Temple Families and Their Mining History, 1844-1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 1, 2022
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  • Places & Communities

“Unfriendly to Respectable Humanity”: Benjamin D. Wilson’s Recollections of the Battle of Cahuenga, 19-20 February 1845

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 19, 2022February 20, 2022
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“A Few Lines for Your Benefit and Consideration”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Abraham Temple to Pliny F. Temple, 24 January 1842

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 24, 2022January 28, 2022
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“In Doubt as to the Condition of Things”: Benjamin D. Wilson’s Account of the Mexican-American War in Greater Los Angeles, September 1846-January 1847, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 10, 2022
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“Determined to Defeat the Villainous Plot”: Benjamin D. Wilson’s Account of the Mexican-American War in Greater Los Angeles, September 1846-January 1847, Part One

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  • Posted on January 9, 2022
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“It Was Not Safe For Us to Remain Longer in New Mexico”: Benjamin D. Wilson’s 1877 Account of the Rowland and Workman Expedition of 1841

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 5, 2021
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Stephen Clark Foster’s Recollections of “Los Angeles on the Eve of the Gold Rush,” Part II, in “Touring Topics,” August 1929

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  • Posted on August 8, 2021
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“The Latest Authentic Information”: A Report on Postwar California and Los Angeles from “The Union” Newspaper, Washington, D.C., 22 July 1847

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 22, 2021
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Moving to the Siberia of Mexico Wrapup: The Workman and Temple Families as Immigrants to California

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 26, 2020December 30, 2020
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A photograph, "The Scene at the Bathing Pool, Angeles National Forest," ca. 1910s.
Edgar and Agnes Temple having fun at the beach!
Ever wonder what's inside our "tepee?" Here's a look!
Sunday, June 12, 2-3:30 p.m.
The Long Beach Purity Raids of 1914
We've added some new ( but old!) pieces of Temple family furniture to both of our houses. Drop by for tours this weekend to check them out!

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City of Industry, CA 91745
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