Ingersoll's Century History Santa Monica Bay Cities (Being Book Number Two of Ingersoll's Century Series of California Local History Annals), 1908, 1908a, 1883
[p. 156] Chapter II Laying the Foundations. 1870-1880.
" . . . [p. 156] This [Juan Bernard] wharf which was built [in the late 1870s] from the foot of Strand street was intended to be fifteen hundred feet, but was not completed. A large warehouse was built, which was planned to be complete for commercial purposes, but the S.P. forbade the steamers to land here, and the fiat was obeyed. No boat ever unloaded there, and the wharf was finally carried out by a severe storm about 1883 and the timber used for other purposes.
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[p. 269] Chapter VII Public Institutions: Schools
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[p. 269] School Trustees of Santa Monica
1882-83: Mrs. L.B. Huie, J.W. Scott, M.R. Gaddy (clerk).
1983-84: Mrs. E.E. McLeoud, Mrs. Geo. B, Dexter, E.K. Chapin (clerk).
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[p. 288] Chapter VIII Churches and Societies: Methodist Church
. . . [p. 283] A pastor was sent here in 1883-4, Rev. J.B. Howard, who found but three resident members of the [Methodist] church. He nevertheless succeeded in gathering a number of new members and strengthened the church by changing the location. The lots on Sixth street were sold and the present location on Fourth street and Arizona avenue were purchased and the building removed.
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[p. 328] Chapter XI Venice of America and Its Founder
[p. 328] In 1883, [Abbot Kinney] was appointed a commissioner to serve with Helen Hunt Jackson in an investigation into the conditions of the Mission Indians of Southern California. After several months of travel and personal examination of the various reservations and their people, Mr. Kinney prepared a report to the government, advising the breaking up of the reservation system and the use of common-sense methods in the treatment of these miserable and helpless remmnants of the first occupants of our country. It was during this period that Mrs. Jackson gathered much of the material used in the construction of Ramona and in her articles on the Missions and the Mission Indians.