Pasadena has long been noted for its beautiful tree-lined streets, but the original landscape was a largely treeless plain, with a few native live oaks. Read More »
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Painting California: “…a very valuable thing…”
“It seems to me it would be a very valuable thing if you could carry out your plan to make accurate water-color studies of the Read More »
Eva Fenyes and Boadway Brothers Department Store
It was an enormous pit, a huge gaping excavation that threatened to undermine Cabrillo Place. The bungalows and shops teetered on the edge of a Read More »
Christmas Tree Lane: Celebrating a Century of Holiday Brilliance
One hundred years ago this month, the magnificent Deodar trees on Altadena’s Santa Rosa Avenue were first entwined with multi-colored lights and lit on December Read More »
Memorial Day: A Civil War Holiday
In May of 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina, the African American community decorated the graves of Union soldiers who had died while in a Confederate Read More »
The Reverend Colonel Higgins
Reverend David J. Higgins was already in his forties by the time the Civil War began and was an established minister. He decided that it Read More »
A Closer Look at Thaddeus Lowe
Civil War balloonist Thaddeus Lowe was born on August 20, 1832 in Jefferson, New Hampshire. His full name was Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, and with Read More »
The John F. Godfrey Post, Grand Army of the Republic
The John F. Godfrey Post was far from the first Grand Army post formed in California. In fact, it was the ninety-third! Pasadena didn’t form Read More »
Thomas Croft: The Man Who Owned Pasadena for a Day
Thomas Croft was an organized man. That served him well during his time in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He was an officer, Read More »
What’s an Enfield, and Why is it in the Exhibit?
The Enfield .577 caliber rifled musket was the second most common weapon used in the American Civil War, largely because it was used by both Read More »
