Fallbrook Historical Society

FHS Musuems closed 4/4/21 for Easter Sunday, back open 4/11/21. Happy Easter!

Beginning Mar 21, 2021 our Heritage Center Museums are open Sunday’s for in person visitors from 1-4 pm. Masks are required. Road work has Rocky Crest closed at Mission Road. To reach the Heritage Center go west on Almond Street at Mission Road (next to Jack in the Box), then turn left on Hill Avenue until you reach our museum. Please follow this map.

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History Bits: Fallbrook Timeline - 1769 - After Junipero Serra’s death the last California mission was founded La Misión de San Luis, Rey de Francia (The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France). At its prime, Mission San Luis Rey's structures and services compound covered almost 950,400 acres, making it the largest of the missions, along with its surrounding agricultural land. Native Americans in this area came to be called the Luisenos by the Spanish.... More timeline at https://www.fallbrookhistoricalsociety.org//fallbrook-tim/ Please like FHS Facebook page and follow us to get more historical facts.

Fallbrook History Bits The Fallbrook Village Association, founded in 1993, literally arose from the ashes of Old Fallbrook. The Fallbrook Hardware store had been built in 1888 on the corner of Main & Alvarado in the center of the new town of West Fallbrook. When the old store was consumed by fire 99 years later, a burnt-out lot was left in the center of a town that was preparing to celebrate its centennial. Civic leaders recognized this and other issues as important ...to revitalizing the business section. The following is the timeline of the Fallbrook Village Association. June 24th 1987: The 99 year old Fallbrook Hardware store on the SE corner of Alvarado & Main burns down on. This vacant lot will one day become Village Square. For more of this story please click here. https://www.fallbrookhistoricalsociety.org//history-of-th/

Happy New Year to you and your family. Please visit FHS website at https://www.fallbrookhistoricalsociety.org and FHS Facebook page on regular basis to learn Fallbrook History. Please also share and like FHS Facebook page. ... - History Bits 100 year-old Ficus on Ammunition Rd near Albertsons, next to Carl’s Jr. restaurant. Fallbrook has a Ficus tree that was 100 years-old in 2017. It is located on Ammunition Rd near Albertsons, next to Carl’s Jr. restaurant. This Ficus has a history going back to the beginnings of the town of Fallbrook lives on Ammunition Rd near Albertsons, next to Carl’s Jr. restaurant. This tree, a Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as a Moreton Bay fig, is native to the east coast of Australia and must have come to California by ship as a seedling. Other notable Moreton Bay figs of approximately the same age are found in Balboa Park, Oceanside, and Santa Barbara. Some of these trees may have been imported as an experiment to test their usefulness for timber, but became more popular for landscaping because of their majestic canopies. More at https://www.fallbrookhistoricalsociety.org//fallbrooks-10/

Fallbrook Historical Society Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Fallbrook Historical Society Wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. - Virtual Toor We decorated ... 1. Heritage Center https://www.fallbrookhistoricalsociety.org/heritage-center/ 2. Gift shop: https://www.fallbrookhistoricalsociety.org/2020-gift-shop-/ 3. Pittenger House: https://www.fallbrookhistoricalsociety.org/2020-pittenger-/

History Bits The community of Fallbrook was first settled by the Payomkawichum people, later called Luiseños by the Spanish missionaries who were present in the area in the late 1700s. Large village sites and oak groves were established by the Luiseños. One site in particular became the area known today as Live Oak County Park. The first permanent recorded settlement was during the Mexican period in 1846, when Ysidro Alvarado was granted Rancho Monserate by then governo...r of Mexican California, Pio Pico, who was residing to the west of Fallbrook where Camp Pendleton is currently located. Alvarado and Pico were second-generation Californians and San Diegans and were citizens of Mexico and the United States. Rancho Monserate, a 13,323-acre grant stretched from the San Luis Rey River and Bonsall to the south to Stagecoach Lane and the Palomares house to the North to Mission Road to the west to Monserate Mountain to the east. Pio's nephew and local vaquero, Jose Maria Pico, had been residing in the area now known as the Fallbrook High School during the 1860 census and his family had registered to vote in October 1868, in time for the November presidential election, the first election after the Civil War ended. The first known image of the area was an oil painting done by James Walker in 1870 called Roping the Bear at Santa Margarita Rancho, which depicts Mexican vaqueros capturing a grizzly bear. See more

- History bits- The Fall Brook had the distinction of doing the largest freight business of any single track road in the country, and its magnitude amazed practical railroad men everywhere." (Wellsboro Agitator - 1900) Introduction... Locomotive #45 - Mulhollon Fall Brook Coal Company Locomotive #45 "Mulhollon" Named for John Magee's mother, Sarah Mulhollon Magee. This photo was identified as the first passenger train and crew to run between Elkland and Lawrenceville, on the Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim, later the Fall Brook Railway. (1882) After a foreclosure sale in 1854, Hon. John Magee purchased a controlling interest in the Corning & Blossburg Railroad in New York State, beginning a series of acquisitions and leases which led to the formation in 1892, of the Fall Brook Railway and its ultimate merger into the New York Central system. Early logoMr. Magee, my great-great-granduncle, was a former two-term member of Congress whose extensive businesses included stage coaches, mining and the Fall Brook Coal Company, which operated mines at Antrim, Blossburg and Fall Brook, PA. In 1833, The Tioga Navigation Company (PA), and the Tioga Railroad (NY) were given permission to construct a rail system to carry coal and lumber from Blossburg, PA north to Corning, NY. Each state would only allow rails to be built to their respective state line. Curtesy FallbrookRailway.com Read more history at: http://www.fallbrookrailway.com/index.shtml

***Please us on Zoom! Meetimg is on*** The Fallbrook Historical Society invites you to join us for our Awards Ceremony to honor our ... Pioneers of the Year, Jackie Heyneman, Cecilia Njust and Bev McDougal; Vintage Business of the Year, Bill Atkins, All Star Therapy; and Member of the Year, Don McLean Jr.; on-line FREE via Zoom! We'll also give a brief review of the past year. December 6 at 12:00 pm See you there! Zoom information: Topic: Awards Ceremony Time: Dec 6, 2020 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83648309945 Meeting ID: 836 4830 9945 Passcode: 595248

- History bits - Fallbrook, CA named for Fall Brook Coal, and Fall Brook, PA Many Magees settle on the west coast at Fall Brook & Temecula Vital Reche, from Rochester, married Amelia Magee, niece of Gen. George J. Magee. He became involved in the Magee family's Fall Brook Railroad and coal interests, in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1869, Vital and Amelia moved permanently to California. They chose the name Fall Brook for their ranch. Soon the entire valley, with its many l...arge and beautiful Live Oak Trees, was called Fall Brook; later, Fallbrook. More at http://www.fallbrookrailway.com/fallbrook_ca.html

The Fallbrook Historical Society invites you to join us for our Awards Ceremony to honor our Pioneers of the Year, Jackie Heyneman, Cecilia Njust and Bev McDougal;... Vintage Business of the Year, Bill Atkins, All Star Therapy; and Member of the Year, Don McLean Jr.; on-line FREE via Zoom! We'll also give a brief review of the past year. December 6 at 12:00 pm See you there! Zoom information: Topic: Awards Ceremony Time: Dec 6, 2020 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83648309945 Meeting ID: 836 4830 9945 Passcode: 595248

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. - Fallbrook Historical Society

To all veterans of all branches: Thank you for your sacrifice, your bravery, and the example you set for us all. In short, thank you for your service! To all those who have served, and those who continue to serve Happy Veterans Day! Do you know Fred ‘Freddy’ Rodriguez? ... Recently the Fallbrook Historical Society was asked to research the background and possibly find a picture of a 1940 Fallbrook High School alumni Fred ‘Freddy’ Rodriguez. Freddy grew up on the Rincon Indian reservation near Pala. He was the starting right halfback on a very good Fallbrook High 1939/1940 football team. After graduation he worked at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego before joining the Army. Serving with the 5th Infantry Division, 11th Infantry Regiment, Rodriquez was killed during the Battle of the Bulge in Luxemburg. He had just turned 22 years old. Fred Rodriguez is buried in the American cemetery in Hamm, Luxemburg

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