Fullerton, California

Here is a bit of information about Fullerton Ca.  Click Here to get to a page where I will store any documents, images, etc.   with reference to Fullerton, Ca..  Click here to get back to a list of the Counties of California.

Some of the  Native American Tribes known to inhabit California were the Hupa, Maidu, Pomo, Modic, Mohave, Chowignas, Pimunguns.  According to Ereferencedesk there were over 135 distinct language dialects.

1542 The official discovery of California by Spain

1545 Typhus and other European diseases start killing larges amounts of native populations in Cuba, and New Spain

1579 Sir Francis Drake claims some land north of San Francisco for England

1633 - 1634 Small Pox

Spanish missionaries start settling California in the 1700s

1775 - 1783 Revolutionary War

1776 Declaration of Independence signed

1793 Yellow Fever

1812 Russian fur traders build Fort Ross just north of San Francisco

1820 American Trappers start arriving from the East

1820 - 1875 Texas - Indian Wars

1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain

1832 - 1866 Cholera

1846 - 1848 Mexican - American War

1848 California is ceded to the United States by Mexico

1849 The Gold Rush begins

1850 California becomes the 31st State

1858 Scarlet Fever

1861-1864 The Civil War

1862 The Great Floods  

1863 Emancipation Proclamation

1877 Jim Crow Law enacted till 1950s

11887 Fullerton was founded

1880s- Petroleum discovery caused a population boom to the area

1890s - A huge agricultural center882 The Chinese Exclusion Act

1898 the American Anti-Imperialist  League formed

1900 Oil discovered in California

1905 Japanese and Korean Exclusion league formed in California and gained 80,000 + members

1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fires

1906 - 1907 Typhoid

1910 Angel Island opens (West Coast’s Ellis Island)

1910 - Fullerton is a "railroad town" and is incorporated

1913 California Alien Land Law

1914 - 1918 WWI

1915 - 1955 Polio Outbreaks

1918 - 1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic

1920 ACLU founded

1920 Women get the right to vote

1920 - 1933 Prohibition

1921 - 1925 Diphtheria Outbreaks

1924 United States gives citizenship to some Native Americans

1929 Beginning of the Great Depression

1933 The Long Beach Earthquake

1939 - 1945 WWII

1941 Pearl Harbor

1942 President Roosevelt Signed Executive Order 9066 (Feb)

1942 General Dewitt issued Public Proclamation No. 1(Mar, internment camps)  


Here are helpful resources for Fullerton

Fullerton Heritage    has many links to additional resources good for geneological research.

Fullerton, California Documents, Images, Letters etc.

This will be where I keep al the documents, letters etc.. that I find referencing Fullerton



Roster 
Department of California and Nevada
Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Organized April 15, 1909 at Pasadena, Ca. 
1947

Cities in Alameda County, California

Here is a list of the cities in Alameda County. Here is the link back to the Counties in California


Alameda
Albany
Berkeley
Dublin
Emeryville
Fremont
Hayward
Livermore
Newark
Oakland
Piedmont
Pleasanton
San Leandro
Union City

Oakland, California Basic Timeline and Resources

This is meant to be a very basictime line to show what was happening during your Ancestor's lives.
Here is a link to back to California Counties.  Here is a link to the page where  I will keep documents, Images, rosters, etc.. the mention Oakland.  The information I found was compiled from many sites such as Wikipedia, City, County web pages etc.

1852 - Oakland is incorporated
1868 - Oakland Evening Transcript starts publication
1869 - Railway begins operation
1875 - Oakland Evening Daily Tribune starts publication
1878 - Oakland Free Library Opens
1906 - San Francisco earthquake /fire refugees arrive
1910 - Oakland Public Museum opens
1927 - Oakland Airport opens
1927- Port of Oakland opens
1936 - San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1944 - Oakland Army Base Open
1946 - Oakland General strike
The following is another list that may help guide some of your research.

Some of the  Native American Tribes known to inhabit California were the Hupa, Maidu, Pomo, Modic, Mohave, Chowignas, Pimunguns.  According to Ereferencedesk there were over 135 distinct language dialects.

1542 The official discovery of California by Spain

1545 Typhus and other European diseases start killing larges amounts of native populations in Cuba, and New Spain

1579 Sir Francis Drake claims some land north of San Francisco for England

1633 - 1634 Small Pox

Spanish missionaries start settling California in the 1700s

1775 - 1783 Revolutionary War

1776 Declaration of Independence signed

1793 Yellow Fever

1812 Russian fur traders build Fort Ross just north of San Francisco

1820 American Trappers start arriving from the East

1820 - 1875 Texas - Indian Wars

1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain

1832 - 1866 Cholera

1846 - 1848 Mexican - American War

1848 California is ceded to the United States by Mexico

1849 The Gold Rush begins

1850 California becomes the 31st State

1858 Scarlet Fever

1861-1864 The Civil War

1862 The Great Floods  

1863 Emancipation Proclamation

1877 Jim Crow Law enacted till 1950s

1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act

1898 the American Anti-Imperialist  League formed

1900 Oil discovered in California

1905 Japanese and Korean Exclusion league formed in California and gained 80,000 + members

1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fires

1906 - 1907 Typhoid

1910 Angel Island opens (West Coast’s Ellis Island)

1913 California Alien Land Law

1914 - 1918 WWI

1915 - 1955 Polio Outbreaks

1918 - 1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic

1920 ACLU founded

1920 Women get the right to vote

1920 - 1933 Prohibition

1921 - 1925 Diphtheria Outbreaks

1924 United States gives citizenship to some Native Americans

1929 Beginning of the Great Depression

1933 The Long Beach Earthquake

1939 - 1945 WWII

1941 Pearl Harbor

1942 President Roosevelt Signed Executive Order 9066 (Feb)

1942 General Dewitt issued Public Proclamation No. 1(Mar, internment camps)  


Helpful Resources

Oakland Historical Alliance

Mountain View Cemetery

Evergreen Cemetery is full. I couldn't find a website, but here is the Wikipedia page with some information and more external links about Evergreen

Camron - Stanford House 

SFGenealogy.com  This is a great site I stumbled across, that has links to databases and more.  It has resources for many counties surrounding San Francisco

Documents, Images etc. of Oakland, California

This where I will keep a list of any Documents, Images, letters etc.. that have references to Oakland.
Here is the link to the Basic Oakland Timeline.  Here is the link To Alameda County


Roster
Department of California and Nevada
Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Organized April 15, 1909
at Passadena, California
1947

San Diego Basic Timeline

This is meant as a very basic time line, that may help you know what was hapening in San Diego during your ancestor's lives.  Here is a link back to the cities in San Diego County.  Here is a link to a list of any documents, images etc.. that mention San Diego City. I found the following information on the San Diego County website, wikipedia, etc.

1542 - First European (Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo), enters San Diego Bay
1602 - Sebastian Vizcaino names, and maps out San Diego Bay
1769 - First settlements placed in Alta California in New Spain
1821 - San Diego becomes Mexican land after Mexico gains independence
1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago cedes California to Untied States
1850 - California becomes a state
1858 - There is a hurricane October 2nd.  It destroyed many houses.
1867 - Alonzo Horton purchased 960 acres of land that is now part of Downtown Sand Diego
1868 - The Sand Diego Union begins pubication
1872 - San Diego is incorporated
1882 - San DiegoPublic Library established
1887 - San Diego Daily Bee starts publication
1892 - San Diego Electric Railway opens
1895 - Evening Tribune starts publication
1897 - San Diego Normal School Established
1903 - Marine Biological Association of San Diego Founded
1905 - USS Bennington explodes in the harbor killing 66, and injuring 46
1908 - Great White Fleet visits San Diego
1910 - Balboa Park gets it's name
1916 - Major floods in January cut San Diego off fromthe rest of the state for about a month, and 10 million estimated in property damage. There was also 28 estimated dead in the City,and 50 in the County
1919 - San Diego and Arizona Railway open
1921 -  U.S. Marine Training Base Commisioned
1921 - San Diego Zoo Established
1922 - Naval Base Established
1923 - NavalTraining Base Established
1937 - U.S. Coast Gaurd Air Station Established
1941 - Consolidated Aircraft is the biggest employer in San Diego with 25,000 employees

Here are some resources you may find helpful

San Diego Historical Society

San Diego History Center

El Campo Santo Cemetery
http://hiddensandiego.net/el-campo-cemetary.php

Mount Hope Cemetery
https://www.sandiego.gov/park-and-recreation/general-info/mthope/

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery (Veteran Cemetery)
http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftrosecrans.asp

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, and Mausoleum
http://www.holycrosssd.com/wp/

Mission Basilica Sna Diego de Acala
http://www.missionsandiego.org/visit/history/

San Diego City Historical Documents, Images etc.

This post will contain any historical documents, images, directories  for San Diego City.  I will add the information as I come across it in my studies.

Rosters

Roster 
Department of California and Nevada
Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Organized April 15, 1909 at Passadena, California