https://www.blackhistoryparks.org/home daily 1.0 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/52f7d820-cbe9-44e2-82ff-fcc2126c8605/African+American+History+Engagement+Icon+Research.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/52f7d820-cbe9-44e2-82ff-fcc2126c8605/African+American+History+Engagement+Icon+Research.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/52f7d820-cbe9-44e2-82ff-fcc2126c8605/African+American+History+Engagement+Icon+Research.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/52f7d820-cbe9-44e2-82ff-fcc2126c8605/African+American+History+Engagement+Icon+Research.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/803aa299-8b0c-4865-baf3-b0da78d71c19/231-18-006+Angel+Island.jpg Home Colonel Allen Allensworth served as Chaplain on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/93cc3954-a7a7-4e38-879e-4bea12f225f4/AngelIsland-Chapel_-01.jpg Home Colonel Allen Allensworth, the highest-ranking Black officer of his day and an Army Chaplain, led services at this chapel on Angel Island. [Photo: Sue Mark] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/f2e950f4-9ab5-4f95-b81c-ad87b119fbf3/Allensworth-Family_SJ1900_UCLA.jpg Home Nella (first row, left) and Eva Allensworth (third row, left), daughters of Colonel Allen and Josephine Allensworth, sit for a portrait of prominent citizens, San Jose, California, 1900. [Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection, UCLA Special Collections] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/b6f8ebc4-26b5-474e-864d-524ab4f00e58/090-2156+Allensworth.jpg Home Teachers at the Allensworth school, c. 1915. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/0f9d0125-0565-46a5-9a1e-94355e7dab77/aw_026.jpg Home November 1976 excerpt from News & Views [Department of Parks and Recreation] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/397eea0b-1e10-482f-84c6-8e1908d8ccca/090-2135.jpg Home Henry Cowes (right), Allensworth, ca. 1918. Together with his wife, Josephine, he operated the Allensworth post office then expanded to include this grocery store. [California State Parks, 090-2135] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/35b1d544-859d-4d14-bb8d-0eb2181eb2b7/090-32761.jpg Home Both the San Francisco Giants and 49ers played at the now-demolished Candlestick Park, located next to Candlestick Point SRA. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/6c79b07e-f948-4cbe-920a-4b8e95f6f1f7/Candlestick_BlackRosies.jpg Home During WWII, African American women helped construct Libery and Victory ships in the naval shipyards near Candlestick Point Recreation Area. [Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/fa86f7c0-654c-4f57-be4d-7399db71baf1/090-S10655+Candlestick.jpg Home Local residents prepare to fish at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, 1980s. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/9cc90ff7-6874-4c9a-b34f-6ee069f080a7/Columbia_TomGillman.jpg Home Thomas Gilman outside his cabin, undated. During the Gold Rush, Gilman purchased his freedom and mined near Columbia SHP. [California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/f23d9c9d-90ab-43d0-8293-3a311240ceaa/090-P103947+Columbia.JPG Home Historic building and street scene in the heart of Columbia SHP. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/8b73ed39-ac9b-4bb2-af37-237fddb3f88b/Gilman-1881+Property+Tax+Receipt-CSL-FL318026.jpg Home African American miner and farmer Thomas Gilman owned property near Columbia State Historic Park. This receipt shows his ranch was valued at nine hundred dollars in 1881. [California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/337812df-a787-4fc1-a6bc-aae2ace54bf6/090-S2327+Folsom+Lake.jpg Home A view of Black Miners Bar at Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, 1972. The original townsite had between five and six hundred residents in the 1850s. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/b2632451-b192-40e8-982c-848e8791de36/1857_Rancho_Rio_de_los_Americanos.jpg Home Map of Rancho Rio de los Americanos, May 1857. This 35,521-acre plot in present-day Sacramento County was owned by Afro-Caribbean businessman William Alexander Leidesdorff until his death in 1848. [Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/004f78b0-9a3c-4546-a50a-aa49398c25d8/Negro+Bar+Original+Site+Obelisk+.JPG Home The 1996 marker memorializing the original mining sites of Negro Bar and Texas Hill, located on the historic land of William Alexander Leidesdorff's Rio de los Ranchos Americanos. [Photo: Sela Kerr] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/d028dbaa-d1b9-4a26-9bdb-cb901cdc291c/090-P55218+Fort+Ord.jpg Home The tranquility of Fort Ord Dunes State Park belies its history as the first interracial military base in California. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/3fdd5e7e-370d-4100-a7f9-b55e0144686d/FORT+ORD++-+Leroy+Gatewood+1948.jpg Home Leroy Gatewood (center) poses with fellow soldiers at Fort Ord after the Post's 1948 integration. [Gatewood Family and Black Gold Cooperative Library System] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/6af2d8d0-f93d-4b86-8237-514ec730daf3/090-P76395+Fort+Ord.jpg Home An ammunition bunker at Fort Ord Dunes State Park. About 1.7 million soldiers trained at this interracial US Army post. [California State Parks] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/35ffa3ed-ac72-49ea-9a55-0cf5c7d2a578/SD-LightPapers-B.jpg Home Allen Light, an African American mariner and Mexican citizen, protected California's coastline from poachers. Workers discovered his sailors’ protection papers in a wall in 1948. [Photo: Sue Mark] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/d8094a84-a9c5-4868-8cc7-8cd31c437735/jose-antonio-estudillo-house-mason-street-and-san-diego-avenue-old-town-san.jpg Home Jose Antonio Estudillo House, constructed in 1827 by the prominent Estudillo family and located in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. [Historic American Buildings Survey collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/d41ce59c-e14a-4f4e-971d-2310636c2b5c/OldTownSD_PicoFamily.jpg Home Don Pio Pico, his wife Maria Ignacia Alvarado, and two nieces, ca. 1852. Pico served as the last governor of Alta California. [C.C. 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[Secretary of State Records, Corporations, 54355, California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/b21a3f60-db6d-4c5b-abd3-1e7a2a3fcc70/Allensworth+Original+street+names+map+of+incorporated+area.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Original street names still present today recognize important historical figures such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. [Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park Collection, California State Parks Archives] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/0180a0b4-807e-4150-a2b7-26201a29ec7c/The+Allensworth+Hotel+provided+lodging+for+75+cents+a+night+1913.png Allensworth Revitalization Project The Allensworth Hotel provided lodging for seventy-five cents a night to travelers and to new families waiting for their homes to be built https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/8311e62f-0592-4aa1-a32e-7acace90b0b2/the+Allensworth+library+1915.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Books from the Tulare County Library arrived by train and were then delivered by horse-drawn vehicles to the Allensworth Library. [Annie R. Mitchell History Room, Tulare County Library, Visalia, California] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/a70be5b2-3b06-4125-a959-2735d0d1c3d3/The+residence+of+Colonel+Allensworth+and+his+wife+1916.png Allensworth Revitalization Project The residence of Colonel Allensworth and his wife, Josephine, seen above, was an early prefabricated “kit house” likely ordered from a Sears catalog. [Annie R. Mitchell History Room, Tulare County Library, Visalia, California] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/9e6364f9-45a0-42ca-8da1-0e2e4fa790bd/George+Johnson+a+carpenter+and+Allensworth+resident+1916.png Allensworth Revitalization Project George Johnson, a carpenter and Allensworth resident, poses for the camera between the railroad tracks and the growing town. [Royal E. Towns Papers, MS 26, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/f2274f2f-396a-4c27-8872-55fa68643d94/Irene+Phillips+daughter+of+Sgt+James+and+Birdie+Phillips+1919.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Irene Phillips, daughter of Sgt. James and Birdie Phillips, playing with dogs in the field in front of Colonel Allensworth’s home. [California State Parks, 090-2132] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/c5517ed2-878a-4d03-acf7-4933d33f342b/Allensworth+post+office+grocery+store+1919.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Henry Cowes (right) and his wife, Josephine, operated the Allensworth post office then expanded to include this grocery store. [California State Parks, 090-2135] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/2d877e44-7ea4-40eb-b90c-788d00c19126/Handwritten+letter+from+Henrietta+Singleton+1921.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Handwritten letter from Henrietta Singleton concerning an overdue account for purchases made at her store in Allensworth. [Annie R. Mitchell History Room, Tulare County Library, Visalia, California] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/487764ce-1bdd-44dd-b302-acd5415cb708/The+Allensworth+school+served+the+community+for+60+years.png Allensworth Revitalization Project The Allensworth School served the community for sixty years from 1912 to 1972, when a new school was built just south of the historic town. [California State Parks, 090-P85772; Photo: Brian Baer] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/e334e382-cbf3-4470-ae7d-951aa73e468a/News+and+Views%2C+Department+of+Parks+and+Recreation+April+1971.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Excerpt from the California Department of Parks and Recreation 'News & Views', April 1970, describing the establishment of the Allensworth Advisory Committee. [California State Parks, Southern Service Center] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/2bdc7b07-16c6-46fc-8ff0-5a48847c51b4/Spirit+of+Allensworth+float+in+Tulare+Annual+Dairy+Fiesta+Parade+September+1971.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Local citizens and the Allensworth Advisory Committee entered the prize-winning “Spirit of Allensworth” float in Tulare’s annual Dairy Fiesta Parade. California Department of Parks and Recreation, 'News & Views', March 1971. [Fresno Bee] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/fd13c7bf-7118-4c58-9f36-468d59584d76/January+1972+Allensworth+Al+Green+letter+to+Senator+Howard+Way.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Letter from Al Green, Allensworth Advisory Committee member, to State Senator Howard Way. [Senator Howard Way Papers, LP174:176, California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/92984506-1292-430a-a79d-a5dc516c6b53/Colonel+Allensworth+State+Historic+Park+1975.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park was officially named and classified by the Park and Recreation Commission at its January meeting. [California State Parks, 090-S120; Photo: Gene Russell] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/3ec838b2-8af8-422b-99ca-dbbefe03af81/Al+Green+Allensworth+letter+May+1977.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Al Green’s leadership included urging attendance at this meeting to approve the park’s general plan, which passed eight to one. [Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection, LSC.1889, UCLA Library Special Collections] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/56ce3e0b-1cfb-413e-b48a-bf0253880153/News+and+Views+Department+of+Parks+and+Recreation+November+1977.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Excerpt from the California Department of Parks and Recreation News & Views, November 1976, describing the October 9 dedication event for Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. [Department of Parks and Recreation Records, Press Files (R191.43), California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d788f292297258a486ae81/52a7f9c7-e5a4-482f-9d32-35e53152582c/Courtesy+of+John+Palmer%2C+California+State+Parks+Allensworth.png Allensworth Revitalization Project Buffalo Soldiers 10th Cavalry Company G of Northern California on horseback for Allensworth’s Centennial Event, October 11, 2008. From Colonel Allensworth’s original dream to the park’s current Revitalization Project and beyond, the spirit of Allensworth continues. 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