Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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I left you in the early days of the Twentieth Century in “nineteen ‘aught’ nine.” That’s the way the old timers said those early years. They called zeroes “aughts” in those days. Sometimes “naughts” too. 1909 - The City of Los Angeles Cement Company was established four miles east of Tehachapi. An aqueduct was needed to provide Los Angeles with water from the Owens Valley. They closed the plant down after the project was finished. For a time it produced Potash; not to make cement again unti...
In 1987 I wrote a one hundred year history for St. Malachy Church Centennial commemoration. I found much material that I didn't need but did not wish to completely discard. I ended up making a time line for safe keeping. Each notation has volumes of history behind it but it's nice to get a glimpse of the "goings on" of the people who came before us. It extends from 1776 to 1987. Here is just a portion. 1776 – Padre Francisco Garces traverses Tehachapi Pass with four Mojave Indian guides. 1776 ...
