1908 – Alamitos Congregational Church gets new minister

The Pacific, Volume 58, Issues 1-26, p8-9 (1908). By Congregational Churches in California. Northern California Congregational Conference   Los Alamitos.—The Los Alamitos Congregational Church, which has had a struggle to live, is now meeting with encouraging results under the care of Rev. A. L. Seward and his wife, who is very efficient in calling, carrying cheer and sympathy wherever … Read more

Oct. 14, 1897 – Weekly statistical sugar trade journal, Volume 21

LOS ALAMITOS, Cal.—The beet sugar factory of the Los Alamitos Sugar Co. employs 75 men day and night, and produces 40 tons of granulated sugar per day. The capacity of tho factory is from 300-100 tons, but 408 tons of beets have been sliced in one day; 3,500 acres are cultivated in beets, but this will be raised to … Read more

Early Mexican workers in Los Alamitos

Source:  The Home missionary: Volumes 74-76 – Page 198  (1902) The Home Missionary was the annual publication of the Congregational Church Missionary Society, which supplied the minister for the Congregational Church in early Los Alamitos.   The minister’s report to the society provides much information about the early religious happenings in Los Alamitos. In this report … Read more

August 1963 – Los Alamitos newsletter: Why Industry?

The following was from the City of Los Alamitos’ August 1963 newsletter to its residents. Why Industry? Recently, the City has taken issue with the Anaheim Union High School District  and the Los Alamitos Elementary School District on the location of school sites within industrially zoned land. The question is often asked , why are … Read more

January 1963 – Attempts to censor books at Los Alamitos Scored

LB Press-Telegram, Friday, January 11, 1963 Special to the Press Telegram SAN FRANCISCO—Attempts to censor school textbooks in Los Alamitos School District and other Orange County School Districts came under fire today at a hearing by the State Board of Education on textbooks. Zane Meckler. secretary of the education committee of the Community Relations Conference … Read more

Biography: Frank Capitain, architect of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory & town

18 JUN 1897 – Land of Sunshine: A Magazine of California and the Southwest. p42- One of the busiest men and the same time the pleasantest in all Southern California is Frank J. Capitain of the Alamitos Land Co., which together with the Alamitos Sugar Co. has within twelve months laid out the town of … Read more

April 1897 — A young writer’s look at early Los Alamitos

APRIL 1897 – Ralph Edward Bicknell writes a short description of Los Alamitos in its earliest stages. Bicknell was young but prolific writer who died in 1904, his 23rd year. Born in 1881, he was diagnosed with consumption in 1896 and upon doctor’s recommendations, the family relocated to Southern California. In April 1897, his parents … Read more

1926-1943 – After the Sugar – The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory and Dr. Ross

  The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory was operated for its original purpose for a little over 20 years – from 1897, when it opened as a state of the art facility and the first beet sugar factory in Orange County.  Within a few years there would be five beet sugar factories in the county, all … Read more

March 1967 – Seal Beach annexes the Rossmoor Center

You’d have to be a hermit or living jn the Bin Laden compound to be oblivious to the recent John Moorlach inspired local conversation about Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, and Seal Beach and “Super-city”, annexation, sphere of influence. shared powers The issue has motivated a number of people to speak up.  Some of them actually knew … Read more

The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory: A model for the Philippines?

A number of interesting facts about the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory can be discerned from this U.S. Government report on the factory and how it might be applicable to raising revenue in the new U.S. territory of the Philippines. 1906 – Revenue for the Philippine Islands: Hearings Before The Committee on the Philippines of the … Read more