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Tag: 1860s Los Angeles

  • Disasters

Here Comes The Flood: Some History of Flooding in the Arroyo Seco, 1861-1914, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 27, 2025June 28, 2025
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  • Biographies

All the Right Notes: A Cancelled Promissory Note from William Workman to Isaias W. Hellman, 23 June 1866

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 23, 2025
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  • Education

Getting Schooled With Some History of the La Puente/Temple School, Old Mission, 1863-1921, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 16, 2025
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  • Agriculture

Boyle Heights at 150: “The Awakening of Paredon Blanco Under a California Sun” by Francisca López de Bilderrain, 1928, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 12, 2025June 12, 2025
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  • Agriculture

Boyle Heights at 150: “The Awakening of Paredon Blanco Under a California Sun” by Francisca López de Bilderrain, 1928, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 11, 2025June 12, 2025
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  • Economics

“Peace, a Lasting Peace, Now Dawns Upon Our Land”: Some History of Civil War-Era Los Angeles, 1861-1865

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 14, 2025
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Mining Media References to African-Americans in the 1860s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 24, 2025September 5, 2025
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  • Law & Crime

Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 15, 2025
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  • Agriculture

“There is a Beauty Perennial Through the Droughts”: A Travelogue of Greater Los Angeles by “Socrates Hyacinth” in The Overland Monthly, January 1869, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 5, 2025
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  • Agriculture

“In the Perfect and Mellow Hours of its Fruition”: A Travelogue of Greater Los Angeles by “Socrates Hyacinth” in The Overland Monthly, January 1869, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 4, 2025January 4, 2025
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