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Tag: Old Spanish Trail

  • Transportation & Infrastructure

“A Skeleton Report”: Lt. R.S. Williamson on Surveys for a Transcontinental Railroad Route in California, 1854

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 17, 2020December 29, 2020
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Sharing History with the Sons of the American Revolution, Lake Forest

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 15, 2019January 7, 2021
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  • Politics & Government

The Sesquicentennial of the Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, 10 May 1869

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 10, 2019December 30, 2020
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“Torrent of Evils”: A Warning About An Immigrant Caravan to California, Fall 1841

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 5, 2018January 15, 2021
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William Workman Prepares to Leave for California, 13-14 July 1841

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 13, 2018January 8, 2021
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Victorian Fair Recap: Day One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 28, 2018January 11, 2021
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Museum Director Musings: Appreciating the Homestead’s Volunteers

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 7, 2018April 19, 2021
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  • Places & Communities

Sharing the Political History of the Rowland and Workman Expedition with the Covina Valley Historical Society

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 25, 2018January 11, 2021
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All in the Family: The Arrival of the David Workman Family in Los Angeles, October 1854, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 25, 2017December 23, 2020
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All Over the Map: Central America (Including Texas, California and Northern Mexico), Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1846

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  • Posted on September 28, 2017December 28, 2020
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Recent Posts

  • “Probably a Record Unequaled On a Property of This Kind in the History of California”: A Quartet of Letters Concerning North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 3 July 1914
  • “The Greatest Attraction in the Southwest This Year”: The Opening of the American Historical Review and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition, Los Angeles, 2 July 1923
  • “The Climatic Capital of the New World”: A Pamphlet on “Los Angeles: The Metropolis of the Southwest,” 1 July 1926
  • At Our Leisure: The Early History of Switzer’s Camp in the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mountains, 1885
  • One For the Books: A Press Photo of Librarians at the New Los Angeles Central Library, 28 June 1926

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A photograph, "The Scene at the Bathing Pool, Angeles National Forest," ca. 1910s.
Edgar and Agnes Temple having fun at the beach!
Ever wonder what's inside our "tepee?" Here's a look!
Sunday, June 12, 2-3:30 p.m.
The Long Beach Purity Raids of 1914
We've added some new ( but old!) pieces of Temple family furniture to both of our houses. Drop by for tours this weekend to check them out!

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