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Tag: Los Angeles Herald history 1885

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“Let Us Then Continue to Burn the Merry Hanukkah Lights”: The Celebration of Hanukkah in Los Angeles, 1885-1900, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 14, 2025
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  • Agriculture

“Few People Appreciate the Real Greatness of this Garden Spot Just at the City’s Gates”: Some Early History of Montebello to 1930, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 8, 2025
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Sharing History With the Monrovia Historical Society: Some Early History of Monrovia, 1885-1886, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 6, 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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Tres Hermanos Ranch Tour Postview: The Puente Oil Company and its Chino Connection, 1881-1896

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 1, 2025September 27, 2025
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“A Spot of Glorious Beauty, Enriched With Fig and Orange and Vine and All the Attractions of This Winterless Land”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1884-1886

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 19, 2024
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“We Are Like Spoiled Children Who Are Accustomed to Having Everything Their Own Way”: Some History of Leonard J. Rose, 1827-1899, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 19, 2024July 19, 2024
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  • Agriculture

Tidbits of Mission San Gabriel History, 1876-1885, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 17, 2023September 18, 2023
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  • Places & Communities

From Point A to Point B Along the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1883-1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 11, 2022
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  • “Where the Visitor is Made to Feel Perfectly at Home”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Two
  • “In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part One
  • “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

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