Completed about 1854 and restored in 1939, this was the family home of Don Ygnacio Palomares, who with Don Ricardo Vejar was granted Rancho San José in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado. — — Map (db m128910) HM
Built about 1840 by Ygnacio Alvarado.
Chapel served by San Gabriel Mission.
Pomona's first public school.
Dr. B. S. Nichols family home 1886-1951.
1951, Alfonso B. Fages home. — — Map (db m128914) HM
The first adobe home of Ygnacio Palomares and wife
Concepcion Lopez, the oldest house in the Pomona Valley, was built in 1837. It originally consisted of two rooms with a viga-latilla branch roof and packed mud floor. The Palomares family lived . . . — — Map (db m128911) HM
Dedicated to the families of Ygnacio Palomares
Builder of this house and
Ricardo Vejar grantees of Rancho San Jose in 1837 first settlers of Pomona Valley — — Map (db m159632) HM
Dedicated
September 19, 1994,
in honor of Millard Sheets,
who dedicated 25 years
of service to
the Los Angeles County Fair as
director of Fine Arts
from 1931 to 1956.
Through his life-long efforts
and enthusiasm, Sheets, an
internationally . . . — — Map (db m218586) HM
Wealthy landowner, businessman, and Los Angeles county leader Louis Phillips purchased the Rancho San Jose in 1866. The land was originally owned by the Vejar family and encompassed much of what is now known as the Pomona Valley. Louis and his . . . — — Map (db m170415) HM
The Los Angeles County Fairgrounds was one of 15 temporary assembly centers established during World War II pursuant to Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
The U S. Army confined at this site . . . — — Map (db m165492) HM
Julius Caesar's reign over Rome was
approaching its dramatic end (44 BCE),
when this giant sequoia sprouted - the
tree providing this magnificent round.
Until felled in Tulare County by a windstorm
in 1961, this massive tree, nicknamed . . . — — Map (db m218620) HM
