Monday, March 04, 2019
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Information and photos for people interested in the history of Orange County, California.
Your Host: Chris Jepsen
Some Popular Posts
- Al Capone & Rancho Santa Margarita
- Cook's Corner, Trabuco
- Orange: Plaza vs Circle
- The Pacific Beach Club
- The Santa Ana Winds
- Fr. O'Sullivan and the Spanish Flu
- Murder at San Juan-by-the-Sea
- José Sepúlveda’s El Refugio
- Orange County's Logo
- Judge Pleasants
- Silverwood & Our State Song
- Anaheim's Original Pancake House
- The Pioneer Coker Family
- Belisle's Restaurant
- World's Largest Plow
- O.C.'s Missing River
Orange County History Links
- Anaheim Colony
- Anaheim Heritage Center
- Anaheim Historical Society
- Remembering Anaheim's History
- Balboa Island Museum
- Bowers Museum
- Bowers Blog
- Brea Museum
- Brotherhood of Eternal Love
- Buena Park Historical Society
- CSUF Center for Oral & Public History
- CSUF Library OneSearch
- CSUF Special Collections
- Carbon Canyon Chronicle
- Civil War Roundtable of O.C.
- Civil War Vets Buried in O.C.
- Corona del Mar Historical Society
- Costa Mesa Historical Society
- Dana Point Historical Society
- First American Corp.
- Flickr: O.C. History Photos
- Fullerton Library History Room
- Garden Grove Historical Society
- Heritage Hill Park, El Toro
- Heritage Museum of O.C.
- Historic Huntington Beach
- Huntington Beach Historical Soc.
- Huntington Beach History
- H.B. International Surfing Museum
- Irvine Ranch Historic Park
- Juaneño Band of Mission Indians
- Key Ranch Historical Park
- La Habra Museum Blog
- Laguna Beach Historical Society
- Historic Laguna (architecture)
- Light-headed (Laguna Beach)
- Laguna Niguel Historical Society
- Laguna Woods History Center
- Los Alamitos Museum
- MCAS El Toro Blog
- Kalyn McCall: Happiest Place...
- Mission Viejo Heritage Comm.
- Modjeska Foundation
- Modjeska Historic Home
- Newport Beach Historical Society
- Newport Beach in the Rearview Mirror
- Nixon Foundation
- Nixon Library & Museum
- Old Courthouse Museum Soc.
- Old Orange County Courthouse
- Olinda Oil Museum
- Olive Through the Ages
- Orange Community Hist. Soc.
- O.C. Answer Man (Orange Coast)
- Orange County Archives
- O.C. Historical Commission
- Orange County Historical Society
- O.C. History (Facebook group)
- O.C. Historyland (Phil Brigandi)
- O.C. Jewish Historical Society
- Orange County Memories
- Orange County Sheriff's Museum
- Orange Library History Room
- Placentia Founders Society
- Placentia Library History Room
- Saddleback Area Historical Soc.
- San Clemente Historical Society
- San Juan Capistrano Hist. Soc.
- Santa Ana Black Historical Soc.
- Santa Ana History Room
- Historic South Santa Ana
- Seal Beach Historic Resources Foundation
- The Sealing of Seal Beach
- So Cal Historyland (Phil Brigandi)
- SCRA Fullerton Train Museum
- Surfing Walk of Fame (H.B.)
- Tustin Area Historical Society
- UCI's History
- UCI Library: Regional History
- Westminster Historical Society
- Yorba Linda Historical Society & Susanna Bixby Bryant Museum
- Yorba Linda History Room
Before O.C. was O.C.
- Visions of California (Eric Plunkett)
- Mission San Juan Capistrano
- Early Calif. Population Project
- Blas Aguilar Adobe Museum
- Pacific Coast Archeological Soc.
- Ramon Peralta Adobe
- Yorba Cemetery
- Seaver Center
- L.A. Public Library
- L.A. County Recorder
- Huntington Library
- Bancroft Library
- Capistrano Historical Alliance
- Early California Cultural Atlas
- Early American Sources
- Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library
Statewide/Regional History
- California Revealed (A/V)
- California State Archives
- Calisphere (Photos)
- Citrus Labels & California Art
- Citrus Roots
- ExploreSouthernCal (Daniel Coats)
- Huntington Library (San Marino)
- Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
- L.A. As Subject
- L.A. Public Library photos
- National Archives, Pacific Region
- Online Archive of California
- Pacific Electric Railway
- Packing Houses
- Sherman Library
- Surfing Heritage & Cultural Center
- USC Digital Archive
- Westerners (L.A. Corral)
Historical Preservation
Newspapers (Online Historical)
- Orange Newspapers 1888-1961
- Calif. Newspaper Project (UCR)
- California Eagle (etc)
- Fullerton Newspapers 1921-2016
- Newport Newspapers 1940-2004
- NewspaperArchive.com
- Newspapers at Archive.org
- Newspapers.com
- O.C. Register 1987-2020 (via Newport Beach Library card)
- ProQuest NewsStand (w LAPL card)
- U.S. Newspapers (LoC)
- Yore Anaheim 1870-1964
- Textise (to hop paywalls)
Genealogy Links
- Ancestry.com (Subscription)
- CA Death Records, 1940-1997
- CA Death Records, Pre-1905
- Family Search
- Genealogical Soc. of N. OC blog
- Genealogical Society of North OC
- L.A. Co. Burials, 1870-1892
- O.C. Cemeteries
- O.C. FamilySearch Library
- O.C. Genealogical Society
- O.C. Jewish Genealogical Soc.
- O.C. Tombstone Transcriptions
- Orange County Vital Records
- South O.C. Genealogical Society
Land & Property Links
- O.C. Land Records
- O.C. Property Documents
- Aerial Photos (O.C. Surveyor)
- HistoricAerials.com
- Aerial Photos (UCSB)
- City of Orange Tax Rolls, 1900-1934
- Earth Point: Township/Range
- Sanborn Fire Ins Co Maps (LOC)
- Sanborn maps union list (UC Berkeley)
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- California Coastline
- What Was Where
- ClustrMaps (search by address)
- Zillow (property data)
Books Online
- Historical & Biographical Record of Southern California (1902) - Guinn
- History of Orange County California (1911) - S. Armor
- History of Orange County California (1921) - S. Armor
- Orange County directories
- Little Chapters About San Juan Capistrano (1912) - O'Sullivan
- Memories and Impressions of Helena Modjeska (1910)
- San Juan Capistrano Mission (1922) - Engelhardt
- Two Years Before the Mast (1840) - Dana
- Google Books
Theme Park History Links
Natural History Links
Explore More
- Abandoned & Forgotten Places
- Alan Hess on Architecture
- Archive.org: Texts
- Desert Drifter
- Digital Public Library of America
- Googie Architecture Online
- Hilbert Museum of Calif. Art
- Historical Marker Database
- Institute of Official Cheer
- Irvine Museum
- L.A. County Paper Show
- L.A. Times Photo Collection
- Library Thing
- Muckenthaler Cultural Center
- NARA History Hub
- Perpetual Calendar
- Photos of the Forgotten
- Restaurant-ing Through History
- Roadside Architecture Blog
- Roman Numeral Converter
- Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector
- The Kindness of Color (Janice Munemitsu)
- Tiki Lagoon (My other blog)
- Tinfoil (early recordings)
- Westerners (L.A. Corral)
- Zamorano Club
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