Riverside, California Rosters, Documents, Letters, Etc.

Here is where I will keep any rosters, letters, documents, etc. that reference Riverside.  Click here for the Riverside timeline.  Click here for the list of cities in Riverside County.  Click here for the list of counties in California. 

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

Cities in Riverside County, California

Here is a list of cities in Riverside County, California.  If I have information on any of the cities on the list, the name of the city will be a live link.  Click here for a list of counties in California.  

Banning
Beaumont
Blythe
Calimesa
Canyon Lake
Cathedral City
Coachella
Corona
Desert Hot Springs
Eastvale
Hemet
Indian Wells
Indio
Jurupa Valley
Lake Elsinore
La Quinta
Menifee
Moreno Valley
Murrieta
Norco
Palm Desert
Palm Springs
Perris
Rancho Mirage
Riverside
San Jacinto
Temecula
Wildomar

Hollywood, California Timeline

This is meant to be a very basic timeline of events that may have affected your ancestors lives. Click here for rosters, directories, documents, etc. that mention Hollywood, California.  Click here for the list of cities in Los Angeles county. Click here for the list of counties in California.   

***Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903, then voted be be annexed into Los Angeles in 1910, for access to the city's water supply, and sewer system.    

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

1870s The Hollywood area was a growing agricultural community

1877 Jim Crow Law enacted till 1950s

1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act

1886 H. J. Whitley decided to build a town and name it Hollywood

1898 the American Anti-Imperialist  League formed
1899 Hollywood Cemetery founded

1900 Oil discovered in California

1900 Henry Wilcox buys 160 acres to build a new community

his wife Daeida convinces him to name it Hollywood after she had a a conversation with a person on a train who spoke of a sunner home she had in an area she called Hollywood

1902 Hollywood Hotel opens

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

1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fires

1906 - 1907 Typhoid

1910 Hollywood votes to merge into Los Angeles

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

1912 Los Angeles becomes the movie filming capital

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

1927 Grauman's Chinese Theatre opens

1929 The first Academy Awards

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)  

Useful Links
Hollywood Heritage

Los Angeles Historical Society

Hollywood Forever Cemetery



  

Hollywood, California Rosters, Letters, Images, etc.

Here is where I will keep any rosters, documents, etc. that have references to Hollywood.  Click here for the Hollywood Timeline.  Click here for the cities in Los Angeles County. Click here for the list of counties in California. 

Rosters
Roster
Department of California and Nevada
Daughters of Union Veternas of the Civil War
Organized April 15, 1909 at Pasadena California
1947

Orange, California Timeline

This is meant to be a very basic timeline to give you an idea of what was happening during your ancestors lives.  Click here for the rosters, documents, images, etc. I find that reference Orange.  Click here for the list of cities in Orange County, California. Click here for the list of counties in 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  of California

1863 Emancipation Proclamation

1873 Richland tried to get a Post Office, but there was already a Richland in Sacramento County, so they needed to find a new name

1875 Richland renamed Orange

1870s Orange started as a farming community

1877 Jim Crow Law enacted till 1950s

1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act

1880s The railroad creates a population boom

1885 The Orange Tribune founded

1888 Orange News founded

1888 Orange Incorporated

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)

Useful Resources
Orange Community Historical Society

Orange, California Rosters, Documents, Images Etc.

Here is where I will keep any documents, articles, letters, etc. that reference Orange.  Click here for the Orange timeline.  Click here for the list of cities in Orange County, California.  Click here for the list of counties in California.

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

Inglewood, California Timeline

This is meant to be a very basic timeline that will give you a basic idea of what was happening during your ancestors lives.  Click here for the documents, rosters, etc. that reference Inglewood.  Click here for the list of cities in Los Angeles County.  Click here for the list of Counties in California.



1920 Population boom after an earthquake

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 Pandemic

1834 Centinela Adobe built

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

1888 Inglewood Becomes the first settlement from the Centinela Ranch

1888 First Deputy County Clerk (F.B. Mitchell), and Deputy Sheriff (A.M. Rollins) appointed for Inglewood

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

1905 Inglewood Park Cemetery opens

1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fires

1906 - 1907 Typhoid

1908 Inglewood incorporated

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 Population boom in Inglewood after an earthquake

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)  




Useful Links
Inglewood Park Cemetery

Historical Society of Centinela Valley



The information on this webpage was found in basic internet searches, including the Inglewood City website.