Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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One of my favorite things about helping to organize a large event like the upcoming Day of the Dead Festival is getting to know the participants better. The Tehachapi Heritage League event could not exist without the volunteers, artists, and dancers that help make any festival a well rounded experience. But one of the reasons a lot of people go to festivals is for the vendors. Sales and food vendors were a huge part of last year's success, and we are lucky to have most of them returning, as...
The Old Tehachapi Cemetery was established in 1858, just a few years after early settlers came to Williamsburg, now called Old Town. This is not the resting place of the vast land owners, but of the merchants, constables and mail carriers. Everyday people who were the backbone of a budding community found a resting place on a barren acre in Golden Hills. For this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Pioneer Cemetery. No one has been buried there for ninety years and the site is mostly forgo...
Tehachapi’s Old Pioneer Cemetery, originally called the Shields Cemetery, was established in 1858 just a few years after early settlers came to the Tehachapi area. Men who were “shot in a gunfight” or “died of infected bowels” are buried there as well as many infants who perished under harsh conditions. Everyday people who were the back bone of a budding community that would become Tehachapi found a resting place on a barren acre, in what is now Golden Hills. The Tehachapi Heritage League will sponsor a Day of the Dead Festival on October 2...
