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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Dr. Monroe A. Majors, California’s First African-American Practicing Physician, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 28, 2025September 8, 2025
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“We Will Give You Good Land and We Will Throw the Climate In”: Commemorating Veterans Day With the Site Selection of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, West Los Angeles, 1887

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 11, 2024September 26, 2026
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter From William Hickman to Ransom B. Moore, Los Angeles, 29 August 1877

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 29, 2023August 30, 2023
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Recent Posts

  • “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
  • “All Those Who Have Loved Ones Among the Dead of Old Calvary Will Seek for Them a New Resting Place”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part One
  • “Well, The Cemetery Affair Has Been Settled At Last”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Seven
  • “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

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