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“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
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Here Comes the Flood From Point A to Point B: An Article on an Combined Concrete Road and Flood Channel in Hacienda Heights, Engineering News, 7 January 1915

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 7, 2025
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“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
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“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
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“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
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Letters Concerning the Opening of the North Whittier Heights (Hacienda Heights) Subdivision, May 1913

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 12, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Places & Communities

Homestead Exhibit at Hacienda Heights Improvement Association Annual Dinner

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 10, 2018January 11, 2021
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A Donation of Artifacts on the Early History of Hacienda Heights

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 10, 2017December 28, 2020
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