The San Francisco Bay region has been a hot spot of human activity long before events were recorded. Our beautiful Evergreen area is a part of that and first...
Although sidelined by history, there are a good number of places where the local aviator, John J. Montgomery’s legacy is preserved, these include several sites in the Bay Area.
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The second oldest village in The Villages bears the name of a local aviation pioneer who was cut short in his rise to international fame by a tragic test...
In 1933, Italian born, Benjamino Cribari (1859-1942) would purchase the first portion of the Villa Lomas Azules. The family having dealt with the setback of Prohibition moved forward upon...
The Cribari family patriarch, Benjamin Cribari, was born in Cosenza, Italy. He married Josephine Abruzzini and had four sons before he immigrated to the United States in 1892—about the...
In 1915, William Wehner sold his winery and vineyards to Albert Haentze. The two men had a lot in common. Haentze (1896-1947) was also a German immigrant and a...
Probably the man who first transformed our Evergreen hillsides the most was William Wehner, a German immigrant who made his fortune in Chicago as a producer of large-scale panoramic...
History never seems to completely evaporate, it tends to seep into the fabric of the community; leaving fragments of the past in the old ruins, the trees, landforms and...
