RIVERSIDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Historical Journal
Welcome to the Journal of the Riverside Historical Society
The Riverside Historical Society publishes an annual journal dedicated to original research into the history of Riverside. The following links will take you to older editions of the journal. The newest editions are available at Historical Society meetings, and the newest journal is given to all active members.
Submission Criteria - The Riverside Historical Society is always looking for researched articles on any aspect of the history of Riverside. If you have an interest in writing about Riverside's long and fascinating history, we encourage you to do so. Contact us about any submission to our journal.
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Volume 3
Number Three – February 1999 – William Swafford
Making Riverside Word: The Benefits of the WPA – Terry Baggs
Law Enforcement, Politics, and Prohibition – Alan Curl
Prohibition in a Dry Town – Joyce C. Vickery
Edmund Carrol Jaeger – Examining the Early Career of one of Southern California’s
Premier Naturalists – James Bryant & Vince Moses
Volume 4
Number Four – February 2000 – William Swafford
Rancho Boundaries – Tom Patterson
Benedict Castle: Riverside’s “Castle in Spain” – R. Bruce Harley
Changing Homes, Changing Lives: Transitions in the Delineation of Domestic Interior Space – Mary Bagne
Riverside’s Architectural Heritage – Daniel Tossounion
Golf and the Fallon Dynasty – Sarah Healton
Volume 5
Number Five – February 2001 – William Swafford
Sumi Harada – Tom Patterson
A Chinese American Perspective on Mrs. Bettner’s Letter – Deborah Wong
Our China Boys of Long Ago – Mrs. Robert Bettner
Fairmount Park Episode – Sue Strickland
Evans Letters – S.C. Evans
Relocation Evacuation – Mabel Zink
Volume 6
Number Six – February 2002 – William Swafford
Rediscovering Riverside’ Father: A Short Life of Dr. James Porter Greves – Ronald Baker
History of Riverside – Dr. James Porter Greves
San Timoteo and its Chapel, 1845-1945 – R. Bruce Harley
African Americans in Riverside – Sue Strickland
Death Valley Scotty Offers All That Glitters – Joan H. Hall
Volume 7
Number Seven – February 2003 – William Swafford
Riverside’s Historical Societies Centennial – Joan Hall
Reprint of 1908 Newspaper Story, “New Society of Historians”
An Early Riverside Suburb at La Placita – R. Bruce Harley
Victoria Club Centennial – 2003 – Joan Hall
Tragedy at Mockingbird Lake – John A. Adams
Volume 14
Number Fourteen – February 2010 – Steve Lech
Clinton Marr, FAIA – Award-Winning Architect and Riverside Native – Casey Tibbet
Walter C. Banks – A Prominent Riverside Businessman and Park Commission President
Erin Gettis, Rudy Hardman and the Development of the Hardman Center Area – Kim
Jarrell Johnson, Ike Logan – The Bell Ringer of Mt. Rubidoux – Glenn Wenzel
Volume 15
Number Fifteen – February 2011 – Steve Lech
Benedict Castle Revisited – Joan Hall and Laura Klure
What Might Have Been – Glenn Wenzel
Ebay Purchase Brings Old Letters Back to Riverside – Kim Jarrell Johnson
Description of Riverside (1892) – Charles Dudley Warner
Casa Blanca’s Evans Street – Bill Wilkman
Volume 16
Number Sixteen – February 2012 – Glenn Wenzel & Laura Klure
The Right to Bare Libel – Mel Opotowsky
Riverside’s Mine Okubo – Mary Curtin
Stewarts Boathouse at Fairmount Park – Patricia Stewart
Reading the Sites: The Japanese-American Community in Riverside – Erin Gettis et al
Parks Family – Early Jurupa Pioneers – Kim Jarrell Johnson
Upton Sinclair in Riverside: Charting a Research Cul-di-Sac – Andrew Howe