Agriculture “We Are the Largest Subdividers of High Class Citrus, Walnut and Avocado Lands in Southern California”: Reading Between the Lines in a Quartet of Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 24 February 1916 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 24, 2026 Read More
Agriculture “A Most Attractive Investment and a Desirable Location for a Future Country Home”: Reading Between the Lines in a Trio of Letters for the North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights Subdivision, 27 March 1915 by homesteadmuseum Posted on March 27, 2025 Read More
Agriculture Reading Between the Lines in a Pair of Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 22 January 1915 by homesteadmuseum Posted on January 22, 2025 Read More
Biographies “The Man Who Turned the Very Earth to Gold”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Los Angeles Realtor Joe Toplitzky, 8 November 1919, Part One by homesteadmuseum Posted on November 8, 2024 Read More
Agriculture “If You Once See the Property, You Will Desire a Portion for Yourself”: Correspondence Regarding the North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights Subdivision, 6 October 1914 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 7, 2024October 8, 2024 Read More
Agriculture “The Most Intelligent and Refined People in Any Branch of Horticulture or Agriculture in All the World Today”: Letters Concerning North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 27-29 August 1914 by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 Read More
Agriculture “We Have the Location, Soil, Water and Climatic Conditions”: A Letter to a Prospective North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights Investor, 14 July 1914 by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 14, 2021 Read More
Agriculture Horticulture in Happy Valley: Three Documents Concerning Early North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 7 May 1914 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 7, 2021May 8, 2021 Read More
Agriculture “Citrus Groves That Pay”: A Trio of Letters from Grover T. Russell, Sales Manager of North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 12 January 1914 by homesteadmuseum Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Read More
Agriculture “The Hanging Gardens of Southern California”: Edwin G. Hart and the Avocado Subdivisions of Hacienda Heights and La Habra Heights, 1913-1930 by homesteadmuseum Posted on June 28, 2020December 30, 2020 Read More