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Tag: Duarte California history

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Shell Game, Part Eleven: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, April 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 25, 2025
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  • Agriculture

Shell Game, Part Nine: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, 1873

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 16, 2025
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Sharing History With the Monrovia Historical Society: Some Early History of Monrovia, 1885-1886, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 10, 2025
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Sharing History With the Monrovia Historical Society: Some Early History of Monrovia, 1885-1886, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 8, 2025April 10, 2025
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A Friend Indeed: A Conveyance of “Mission Tract” Land at El Monte from Volney E. Howard to William Workman, 20 April 1863, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 25, 2022April 26, 2022
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  • Disasters

Here Comes The Flood: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Mrs. James Foley, Duarte, 23 February 1884

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 23, 2022February 24, 2022
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  • Transportation & Infrastructure

From Point A to Point B: A Stock Certificate for the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway, 23 May 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 23, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Agriculture

Working the Land: A Letter from the Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange to DeWitt Clinton Sawyier, 23 March 1898

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 23, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Biographies

One for the Books: The Remarkable Life and Careers of Mary Eliza Foy (1862-1962)

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 19, 2020February 26, 2021
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