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 »

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 »
“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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 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 »
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 »