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Category: Early History

1920s aerial view of West Hollywood

Aerial View of West Hollywood in the 1920s

This is a section of an aerial photo of West Hollywood taken in the early 1930s that has been slightly […]

The Village of Sherman Rises around the Trolley Yard

The transcontinental railroads reached Los Angeles in the 1880s, transforming it seemingly overnight from a dusty, brawling pueblo at the […]

Left: Tiburcio Vasquez; right: A poster celebrating his arrest at "Greek George" Caralambo's adobe cabin (center) at what is now Melrose Place in West Hollywood

The Capture of the Bandit Tiburcio Vasquez in 1874 Was the First National News Story Reported from West Hollywood

In May 1874, a sheriff’s posse descended on a remote, rough-hewn adobe cabin in Rancho La Brea, six miles west […]

Illustration from Harper's Magazine of the camel corps trekking west to Los Angeles in 1857

Greek George Caralambo, West Hollywood’s First Settler, Tended Camels around Today’s Melrose Place

Henry Hancock, a New Hampshire-born, Harvard-trained lawyer and surveyor, arrived in Los Angeles in 1852, two years after California was […]

Recreation of the camel corps trek

Camels, Confederates and Other Stories from West Hollywood’s Civil War History

California is famous for the 1849 Gold Rush, but how many people realize that its gold paid for one-fourth of […]

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