• Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Search

The Homestead Blog

Creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles.

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Economics
    • Agriculture
    • Commerce & Manufacturing
    • Labor
    • Oil Industry
    • Real Estate
    • Transportation & Infrastructure
  • Homestead Museum
    • Historic Preservation & Research
    • Staff & Events
  • House & Home
    • Food & Drink
    • Homes
    • Landscape & Gardens
  • Leisure/Entertainments
    • Film
    • Holidays & Celebrations
    • Sports
    • Music
    • Outdoors
    • Theater
  • People
    • Biographies
    • Workman & Temple Family
  • Society
    • Architecture & Decoration
    • Disasters
    • Education
    • Health & Medicine
    • Law & Crime
    • Places & Communities
    • Politics & Government
    • Race, Ethnicity, & Marginalized Groups
    • Religion & Beliefs
    • Women

Tag: 1850s Los Angeles

  • Law & Crime

“We Carried Out These Sacred Duties With the Utmost Solemnity and Reverence”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 11, 2026
Read More
  • Law & Crime

“Banish From This Sacred Precinct The Spirit That Kills Through Excessive, Heartless Doubt”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 10, 2026
Read More
  • Law & Crime

“The Tenderest Sentiments of the Human Heart, Excited by the Memory of the Dead”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 9, 2026October 9, 2026
Read More
  • Places & Communities

“Greetings of Fellowship and Good Feeling”: The Telegraph Comes to Los Angeles, 1860

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 9, 2026June 10, 2026
Read More
  • Agriculture

“Served Well in Army, Field and at Bar”: Some History of Alfred Beck Chapman (1829-1915), Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 11, 2026April 12, 2026
Read More
  • Agriculture

Reading Between the Lines With Grape Expectations in a Letter from Henry J. Yarrow to Joseph F. Vorbe, Los Angeles, 5 March 1870

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 5, 2026
Read More
  • Biographies

From Braunschweig to Beverly Hills: Some History of Andrew H. Denker and Henry Hammel in Greater Los Angeles, 1856-1892, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 19, 2026January 20, 2026
Read More
  • Homes

Lifting Through Gifting While Reading Between the Lines: Letters from England, 1856, 1878 and 1904, in a Donation of Workman Family Photos and Scrapbooks, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 5, 2026
Read More
  • Uncategorized

Boyle Heights at 150: Some History of Andrew A. Boyle (1818-1871), Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 2, 2025December 3, 2025
Read More
  • Agriculture

Boyle Heights at 150: Some History of Andrew A. Boyle (1818-1871), Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 29, 2025
Read More

Posts pagination

Page 1 Page 2 … Page 7 Next Page

Recent Posts

  • “In a Beautiful Locality, But It Is the Picture of Neglect”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Four
  • “Boys Placed Under Normal Circumstances Will Become Normal Men”: Some Early History of Boys Republic, Chino Hills, 1910-1917, Part Three
  • “Taking Youngsters Just Turned Toward Waywardness Along the Straight and Narrow Path”: Some Early History of Boys Republic, Chino Hills, 1910-1917, Part Two
  • “To Make of Them Good, Industrious, Honest Citizens”: Some Early History of Boys Republic, Chino Hills, 1910-1917, Part One
  • “We Carried Out These Sacred Duties With the Utmost Solemnity and Reverence”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Three

Subscribe to our blog

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 521 other subscribers

Facebook

Facebook

Archives

Hours & Info

15415 E Don Julian Road
City of Industry, CA 91745
1-626-968-8492
Public Tours (Fri.-Sun., except 4th weekend)
Workman House:
1:00 & 3:00 p.m.
La Casa Nueva:
2:00 & 4:00 p.m.

Get Directions

Add Waypoint
Route Options
×

Subscribe to our Blog

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Powered by WordPress.com.
×
Loading Comments...