Larry Strawther The Pacific, Volume 58, Issues 1-26, p8-9 (1908). By Congregational Churches in California. Northern California Congregational Conference Los Alamitos.—The Los Alamitos Congregational Church, which has had a struggle to live, is now meeting with encouraging results under the care of Rev. A. L. Seward and his wife, who is very efficient in calling, carrying cheer and sympathy wherever … Read more
LOS ALAMITOS, Cal.—The beet sugar factory of the Los Alamitos Sugar Co. employs 75 men day and night, and produces 40 tons of granulated sugar per day. The capacity of tho factory is from 300-100 tons, but 408 tons of beets have been sliced in one day; 3,500 acres are cultivated in beets, but this will be raised to … Read more
Source: The Home missionary: Volumes 74-76 – Page 198 (1902) The Home Missionary was the annual publication of the Congregational Church Missionary Society, which supplied the minister for the Congregational Church in early Los Alamitos. The minister’s report to the society provides much information about the early religious happenings in Los Alamitos. In this report … Read more
LB Press-Telegram, Friday, January 11, 1963 Special to the Press Telegram SAN FRANCISCO—Attempts to censor school textbooks in Los Alamitos School District and other Orange County School Districts came under fire today at a hearing by the State Board of Education on textbooks. Zane Meckler. secretary of the education committee of the Community Relations Conference … Read more
APRIL 1897 – Ralph Edward Bicknell writes a short description of Los Alamitos in its earliest stages. Bicknell was young but prolific writer who died in 1904, his 23rd year. Born in 1881, he was diagnosed with consumption in 1896 and upon doctor’s recommendations, the family relocated to Southern California. In April 1897, his parents … Read more
The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory was operated for its original purpose for a little over 20 years – from 1897, when it opened as a state of the art facility and the first beet sugar factory in Orange County. Within a few years there would be five beet sugar factories in the county, all … Read more
Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys stuck around until the early 1960s. The first local dairy was owned by Alois (Louis) Denn, a Swiss emigrant who began operating a cheese dairy … Read more
SANTA ANA, Jan. 25—After a bitter legal battle extending over nearly five months, Laurel School District, in the western part of the county, has succeeded in withdrawing from the Las Bolsas Union High School District through a judgment given by Judge West today declaring illegal the order of the Board of Supervisors which placed Laurel … Read more
1904 – W.A. and J. Ross Clark establish the Montana Land Company to manage lands northeast of Los Alamitos (present north Long Beach and Lakewood). 1905 – Clarks have completed rail line from San Pedro to Salt Lake. Needing a water stop for trains, they purchase a desert ranch property and then develop the new … Read more
GEORGE E. PILLSBURY. Los Angeles Born Tewksbury. Mass.. 1857. Educated public schools and Lawrence Academy. Began civil engineering in Lowell, Mass., and until 1880 was in the employ of various railroads; then removed to Mexico where, for about three years, he was a division engineer during the building of the Mexican Central Railway. In 1884 … Read more