A monthly column in the Tri-City Voice
No. 1: January 26, 2021: Where does the name Mowry come from? Why is there a house in the middle of Sylvester P. Harvey Community Park?
No. 2: February 23, 2021: Gladiolas and Union City. What’s the connection?
No. 3: March 23, 2021: What are those old brick structures over at Washington Boulevard and Osgood Road in Fremont?
No. 4 May 4, 2021: What was happening in Alvarado 100 years ago?
No. 5 May 25, 2021: Where do the street names come from? (Niles)
L: Jose de Jesus Vallejo, R: Artistic depiction of Vallejo’s two flour mills at Niles. Painted in 1860 by Vallejo’s daughter Maria del Carmen when she was 12 years old.
L: Mayhew Orange Orchard, R: Essanay Studios
No. 6. June 29, 2021: Where does the name Stevenson come from?
L: Jane and John Thomas Stevenson, R: First Fremont City Council (1956) – Jack Stevenson seated middle.
L: Stevenson Homestead (1904), taken by Carrie L. Stevenson Emerson, R: Stevenson Ranch
No. 7. July 27, 2021: What was happening in July 1907?
Excerpts from The Washington Press, a newspaper out of Niles (Fremont), July 20, 1907
No. 8. August 31, 2021: What is the history of the old Miller Building in Centerville?
No. 9. October 5, 2021: What was happening in Irvington 125 years ago?
No. 10. November 2, 2021: Why is the high school in Union City named “James Logan”?
No. 11. November 30, 2021: What can the trees in our neighborhoods teach us about history?
The Niles Christmas Tree
No. 12. December 28, 2021: Can you tell me 10 things about Tri-City history that I don’t already know?
