Agriculture Shell Game, Part Thirteen: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, July-December 1874 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 28, 2025 Read More
Holidays & Celebrations “The Value of Our National Birth-right to Every American Citizen”: Independence Day Commemorations in Greater Los Angeles, 1854-1855 by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 Read More
Agriculture Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 21-22 January 1873 by homesteadmuseum Posted on January 21, 2025 Read More
Education Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 14 October 1875 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 14, 2024 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing Take It To The Bank With a Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Los Angeles Check, 20 October 1876 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 20, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “All of Us Will Once Again Live in Harmony . . . Let’s Discard All Feelings of Pain From the Past”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Four by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “Her General Character is Bad . . . I Would Not Give Her Credit Under Oath”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Three by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 25, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “There Needs to be Unity in This Town So That There Can Be Security”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 24, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “I Hope That All Good Citizens Will Consider it Their Duty to Calm Public Opinion”: The Killing of Antonio Ruiz by Deputy Constable William W. Jenkins, Los Angeles, 19 July 1856, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 23, 2023 Read More
Politics & Government “The Grandest Display Ever Made In This City”: A Democratic Party Mass Meeting, Los Angeles, 22 October 1868 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 24, 2020December 30, 2020 Read More
