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Tag: Boom of the 1880s Los Angeles

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“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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 31, 2026
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  • Architecture & Decoration

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 26, 2026January 27, 2026
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  • Architecture & Decoration

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 25, 2026
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  • Agriculture

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 20, 2026
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  • Biographies

“I’ll Try and Make the Best of It and Tell You About Our Xmas”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Annie S. Field to Benjamin F. Field, 26 December 1886

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 26, 2025
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  • Biographies

Setteeing the Table: Some History Surrounding a Donation of a Wolfskill Family Love Seat, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 7, 2025September 8, 2025
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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: The Reverend Jordan Allen of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1887-1889, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 14, 2025
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  • Biographies

“The Time Is And Has Been When Man is in Need of Wings”: Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 23 May 1873, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 29, 2025December 3, 2025
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“There is Hardly a Limit to the Numbers That Can Find Constant Employment and Healthful Homes Here”: Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 23 May 1873, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 28, 2025
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  • Oil Industry

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
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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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