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Tri-City History Queries

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

NEWARK — “The latest town in the township to make its modest little bow to the public and invite attention is Newark.”
NILES — “Choice pigs for sale [from] California Nursery Company.” Not figs, pigs!

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?

Palm Saloon, Irvington, 1898
A.O. Rix of Irvington

 

No. 10. November 2, 2021: Why is the high school in Union City named “James Logan”?

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?

History Columns in the Tri-City Voice

Tri-City History Queries (2021)

Tri-City History in Photographs (2022)

Tri-City History – Street Names (2023)

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