Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys stuck around until the early 1960s. The first local dairy…
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Education in early Los Alamitos
by Larry Strawther •
SANTA ANA, Jan. 25—After a bitter legal battle extending over nearly five months, Laurel School District, in the western part of the county, has succeeded in withdrawing from the Las Bolsas Union High School District through a judgment given by…
The Clarks – J. Ross Clark and William A.
by Larry Strawther •
1904 – W.A. and J. Ross Clark establish the Montana Land Company to manage lands northeast of Los Alamitos (present north Long Beach and Lakewood). 1905 – Clarks have completed rail line from San Pedro to Salt Lake. Needing a…
Bayside Land Company
by Larry Strawther •
The Bayside Land Company was formed by Phillip A. Stanton to to create and promote the town that would eventually become Seal Beach. 2 SEP 1903 – LA Times, pA2. INCORPORATED: Bayside Land Company, capital stock $200,000; subscribed: $25. directors:…
Biography- George Pillsbury
by Larry Strawther •
GEORGE E. PILLSBURY. Los Angeles Born Tewksbury. Mass.. 1857. Educated public schools and Lawrence Academy. Began civil engineering in Lowell, Mass., and until 1880 was in the employ of various railroads; then removed to Mexico where, for about three years,…
Early Los Alamitos residents
by Larry Strawther •
1902 Sugar Factory Beet Sugar Gazette, Oct. 1902, p.240 Additional Appointments for the Campaign of 1902-03 Los Alamitos Sugar Company, Los Alamitos, Cal. H. C. Lawrence, Superintendent. I. Evans Miller, Assistant Superintendent. F. Logan Norton, Assistant Superintendent. F. K. Edwards,…
1901 – Early work of the Congregational Church among the Mexican laborers
by Larry Strawther •
One of the best things about Google’s effort to digitize library book collections is that much information on the early days of Los Alamitos has popped up in a number of very unexpected sources. Extensive information which we have been…
Feb. 12, 1901 – Los Alamitos man battered in Labourdette’s Saloon
by Larry Strawther •
12 FEB 1901, Los Alamitos Man battered (LA Times) R.E. Powell of Los Alamitos came before a Long Beach judge and lodged a “John Doe” complaint, charging a Belgian laborer with assault. Powell gives an account of mistreatment and shows…
Nov. 24, 1900 – Beet Sugar Gazette
by Larry Strawther •
24 NOV 1900 – Beet Sugar Gazette , Vol 1, No. 10 (December 1900) Chicago Illinois, p18 LOS ALAMITOS, CAL. Editor Beet Sugar Gazette:—The unusually long drouth of this coast was terminated last Thursday, the 22d inst., by a genuine…
May-Sep 1900 – late rains salvage Alamitos sugar hopes
by Larry Strawther •
What is significant here is that the article indicates the strong presence of Mexican workers, who had apparently already replaced all the Japanese, and non-Hispanic whites in the fields. “In every field there may be seen bands of thinners, mostly…
