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Tag: 1850s Los Angeles

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 5, 2026
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  • Places & Communities

“For the Promotion of the Manly Art of Base Ball Playing”: Some Early Baseball History in Los Angeles, 1860-1878, Part One

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  • Posted on October 24, 2026
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Greetings of Fellowship and Good Feeling”: The Telegraph Comes to Los Angeles, 1860

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 9, 2026June 10, 2026
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“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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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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
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  • “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

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