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Welcome to the Journal of the Riverside Historical Society!

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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.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Number 30
October 2023

  Kim Johnson

  • Riverside’s Tripod - Nancy Wenzel

  • Helicopter Lands on Mission Inn – Nancy Follett

  • The Pioneer Historical Society of Riverside Marks Centennial with Marker for the Norths – Glenn     Wenzel

  • The Pioneer Historical Society of Riverside Marks the Grave of Another Founder – James Greves     – Glenn Wenzel

  • In the Shadow of Mt. Rubidoux – The Simms and Parker Families in Riverside – Nancy L. Cox

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Number 29
June 2022
Kim Johnson

  • Tribulus Terrestris – Chris Jolliffe

  • The Tip Top Laundry – Glenn Wenzel

  • Recollections of Dutch Premium Dairy – Alan J. Box

  • Saved by the Bell – Sharon Trujillo Kasner & Nancy Melendez

  • Bells of the Mission Inn: Bell No. 621 – San Juan Hill Bell – Glenn Wenzel

Number 28
December 2021

Kim Johnson
 

  • One of Riverside’s Often Overlook Parks: Low Park – Legacy of Low and Reynolds Families – Glenn      Wenzel

  • Oscar and Hattie Traver – Forgotten Pioneers – Kim Jarrell Johnson

  • From Quarry to Swim Club – Steve Lech

  • Riverside in 1913 – Glenn Wenzel

Number 27
June 2019
Glenn Wenzel

  • Tragedy of the Native American Boarding Schools and the Triumph of the Sherman High School             – Ian Bachant

  • Riverside Dr. Feels Feet of Sick Senator – Howard Boylan

  • Riverside Nurse Injects Vitamin B into Famous Author’s Gluteus – Howard Boyland

  • Lassie, Sage’s and One of My Earlies Memories – Kim Jarrell Johnson

  • The Anchorage Park Inn – Glenn Wenzel 

Number 26
December 2018

Glenn Wenzel

  • Remembering Joan Hall – Robin & Richard Hanks, Kevin Hallaran

  • Annotated List of Works by Joan Hall – Steve Lech

  • Sherman Institute in the Golden Age of Native American Sport – Tom Willman

  • Notes for a Short History of the Riverside Men’s Breakfast Forum – John Gabbert

  • Swan Lake in the Victoria Club – Howard Boylan

  • Who Is This Family? – Glenn Wenzel

Number 25
June 2018
Glenn Wenzel

  • Franz Hosp – Glenn Wenzel

  • Riverside’s First Church – Don Miller

  • Rubidoux Club – Kim Johnson

  • George Flower – Katie Wider

Number 24
October 2017
Glenn Wenzel

  • Cover and McCoy and the Navel Orange – Marlene Mossestad

  •  Frank A. Miller, More than a Businessman – Jerry Gordon

  •  History Day Competition – Doris Ferguson

  •  My Favorite Memories of Riverside – Board Member

Number 23
January 2017
Glenn Wenzel

  • Rise Up Singing: Riverside and the Folk Revival by Nicolette Rohr

  • Location Unknown by Steve and Marie Mains

  • The Haunting World of Uncaptioned Photos by Carlos Cortéz

  • The Trujillo Adobe - La Corazon de La Placita by Nancy Melendez

  • Our Favorite Pictures of Riverside by the RHS Board

Number 22
October 2016
Glen Wenzel​

  • Riverside – Newest Playground of the Presidents – Tom Martin

  • A Lake View for the House from Whittier Place – Nancy L. Cox

  • Soda Flavors from an Early Soda Fountain – Kim Jarrell Johnson

Number 21
April 2016
Glen Wenzel​

  • Marcella Craft and the Riverside Opera Association – Cindy Patton

  • The Salt Lake Route Arrives in Downtown Riverside – Glenn Wenzel

  •  Three Essays by Bob Patton – Robert Lee Patton

Number 20
October 2015

  • Sage’s Complete Shopping Holds Fond Memories for Mid-Century Riverside - by Steve Lech

  • Riverside Modern: Architecture Tells the Story of the City’s Growth by Teri Delcamp​

  • Smudging – R. C. Lasater

Number 19
January 2015
Glen Wenzel​

  • Marcella Craft: Riverside’s International Opera Star – Cindy Patton

  • The Story of the Robidoux Marker – Diane M. Stephens

  • George W. Garcelon – The Overlooked Pioneer – Kim Jarrell Johnson

  • John G. Gabbert: A Personal Recollection – Jerry Gordon

  • Riverside Through the Lens of E. N. Fairchild – Glenn Wenzel

Number 18
February 2014 
Glen Wenzel​

  • ​​​A Tribute to John G. Gabbert – Jerry Gordon

  • Riverside’s Olivewood Cemetery Marks 125 Years – Glenn Edward Freeman

  • “Kill the Indian and Save the Man:” A Turn for the Better or Worse? – Rachel Priebe

  • Riverside’s First Local Photographers: 1880-1884 – Leigh Gleason

Number 17
February 2013
Glenn Wenzel

  • The British Invade Riverside, 1943 – Sara Goodwins

  • Fire, Wind, and the Sells-Floto Circus – Aaron and Allison Maggs

  • US/TOGETHER: A History of Nosotros Fire Arts Workshop – Judith Auth

  • Little Sam 1848-1939 – Joan Hall

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Number 16
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 How
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Number 15
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

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Number 14
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

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Number 13
February 2009
Steve Lech

  • Anecdotes on Frank Miller and the Mount Rubidoux Easter Pilgrimages – Glenn Wenzel

  • A Brief History of Five-Points – Bill Bell and Casey Tibbet

  • The Judge and Mrs. Freeman – Kathleen Dever
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Number 12
February 2008
Steve Lech

  • In Memoriam – Robert J. Fitch – Laura Klure

  • Remembering Riverside – Margaret Griffin

  • Riverside – Susie Champney Clark

  • The Beginning of a Landmark – Maurice Hodgen

  • Riverside’s Bicentennial Grove – Steve Lech

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Number 11
February 2007
William Swafford

  • Tom – Joan Hall

  • Aspects of Riverside’s Suburban Heritage – Casey Tibbet

  • Little Gom-Benn: Historic Archaeology from a Museum Perspective – Laura Bellow

  • The Washington Navel Orange – A.D. Shamel

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Number 10
February 2006
William Swafford-OP

  • Local DAR Chapter Celebrates Centennial – Joann Bevan

  • The City Busy the Mission Inn: A Personal Reminiscence – Robert Bowers

  • Sherman Institute: The Pride of Riverside – William Medina

  • Evergreen Cemetery – Justice John G. Gabbert

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Number 9
February 2005
William Swafford-OP

  • A Glimpse into the History of California Baptist University, Part Two – Michelle Healy & Lori Henson-Angulo

  • The Romance of the Rain Cross – Maurice Hodgen

  • The Octopus in the Orange Groves – Steve Lech

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Number 8
February 2004
William Swafford-OP

  • Two Catholic High Schools in Riverside: St. Francis De Sales & Notre Dame – R. Bruce Harley

  • Mary Elizabeth Darling – Isabelle Nelson

  • A Glimpse into the History of California Baptist University, Part One –

  • Michelle Healy & Lori Henson-Angulo

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Number 7
February 2003 
William Swafford-OP

  • 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

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Number 6
February 2002
William Swafford-OP

  • 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

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Number 5
February 2001
William Swafford-OP

  • 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
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Number 4
February 2000
William Swafford-OP

  • 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​​

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Number 3
February 1999
William Swafford-OP

  • 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

  • Naturalists – James Bryant & Vince Moses​​

 

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Number 2
February 1998
William Swafford-OP

  •  El Doctor – Christian Cicchetti

  •  Letter from Southern California, 1874

  •  The Southern California Fair – Robert J. Fitch

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Number 1
1997
Ron Baker-OP

  • John W. North and His Water Troubles – Tom Patterson

  • Health Seekers – Joan Hall

  • Letter from California, 1895 – Will Cunnison

  • Will Cunnison: A Life Lived in the Garden Township” – Ron Baker

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P.O. Box 246 

Riverside, CA 92502-0246

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