• Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Search

The Homestead Blog

Creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles.

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Economics
    • Agriculture
    • Commerce & Manufacturing
    • Labor
    • Oil Industry
    • Real Estate
    • Transportation & Infrastructure
  • Homestead Museum
    • Historic Preservation & Research
    • Staff & Events
  • House & Home
    • Food & Drink
    • Homes
    • Landscape & Gardens
  • Leisure/Entertainments
    • Film
    • Holidays & Celebrations
    • Sports
    • Music
    • Outdoors
    • Theater
  • People
    • Biographies
    • Workman & Temple Family
  • Society
    • Architecture & Decoration
    • Disasters
    • Education
    • Health & Medicine
    • Law & Crime
    • Places & Communities
    • Politics & Government
    • Race, Ethnicity, & Marginalized Groups
    • Religion & Beliefs
    • Women

Tag: Violence in 1850s Los Angeles

  • Law & Crime

“For Revenge on the Ones Who Have Slain Them”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 28, 2023January 29, 2023
Read More
  • Law & Crime

“God Grant That Our Citizens May Never Witness the Like Again”: The Legal and Extralegal Executions of Felipe Alvitre and David Brown, 12 January 1855, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 15, 2023
Read More
  • Law & Crime

“Never So Daring An Outrage Upon a Community”: News of Murder from Los Angeles in the “New York Tribune,” 25 August 1853

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 25, 2021
Read More

Recent Posts

  • “His Sole Dependence for His Future Maintenance”: A Report to the United States Senate on the Memorial of William Money of Los Angeles, 27 May 1852
  • “The Fact That This Class of People Are Buying in This Property Speaks for Itself”: Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 25-26 May 1913
  • Getting Schooled With Helen M. Pierce’s “The Graduate School Days” Scrapbook, Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, 1917
  • Treading the Boards with a Program for “Beau Brummel,” Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 24 May 1909
  • Through the Viewfinder with Snapshots of the Will Keith Kellogg Ranch, Spadra (Pomona), ca. 1925

Subscribe to our blog

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,374 other subscribers

Facebook

Facebook

Twitter

My Tweets

Instagram

Congratulations to those graduating this term!
We're joining the Archive Babies hashtag today with a couple of photos from our collection!
Sunday, May 7, from 12-4 p.m.
Being in CA, we often think that slavery didn’t happen here, but after an enlightening and thought-provoking afternoon with Dr. Kevin Waite @kevinwaite yesterday discussing his book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire all in attendance learned the true story. His book tackles the often untold history of how and why Southern slaveholders infiltrated the American West in the years leading up to the Civil War and how they kept a stranglehold there for decades to come.
Sunday, April 30 , 2-3:30 p.m.; Free
Sunday, April 16, 2-3:30 p.m.; Free

Archives

Hours & Info

15415 E Don Julian Road
City of Industry, CA 91745
1-626-968-8492
Public Tours (Fri.-Sun., except 4th weekend)
Workman House:
1:00 & 3:00 p.m.
La Casa Nueva:
2:00 & 4:00 p.m.

Subscribe to our Blog

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Powered by WordPress.com.
×
 

Loading Comments...