18 JUN 1897 – Land of Sunshine: A Magazine of California and the Southwest. p42- One of the busiest men and the same time the pleasantest in all Southern California is Frank J. Capitain of the Alamitos Land Co., which together with the Alamitos Sugar Co. has within twelve months laid out the town of … 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
You’d have to be a hermit or living jn the Bin Laden compound to be oblivious to the recent John Moorlach inspired local conversation about Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, and Seal Beach and “Super-city”, annexation, sphere of influence. shared powers The issue has motivated a number of people to speak up. Some of them actually knew … Read more
A number of interesting facts about the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory can be discerned from this U.S. Government report on the factory and how it might be applicable to raising revenue in the new U.S. territory of the Philippines. 1906 – Revenue for the Philippine Islands: Hearings Before The Committee on the Philippines of the … 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
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
The Bayside Land Company was formed by Phillip A. Stanton to to create and promote the town that would eventually become Seal Beach. 2 SEP 1903 – LA Times, pA2. INCORPORATED: Bayside Land Company, capital stock $200,000; subscribed: $25. directors: P.A. Stanton, I.A. Lothian, George E. Pillsbury, W.R. Bacon, E.M. Mansell Pillsbury was the Chief … Read more