The society and community met at the picnic grounds near the Sylvan Theater in Yosemite Park for the annual potluck. The annual Ice Cream Social superseded this yearly event as a get together and celebration of the community. (probably John Miller -ERVHS)
When Eagle Rock’s City Hall reopened in 1971, the space that now houses the 14th district council offices was devoted to the ERVHS museum. Joe Northrup, then-president is joined by Mrs. Bernice Eastman Johnston, author of the first book about the “Gabrielino” Indians, and Mrs. Catherine Basilio Gualano, charter member of the society admire Eagle Rock’s Rose Parade trophies. (probably Joe Friezer-ERVHS)
The society’s first effort at historic preservation was, appropriately to have the Eagle Rock City Hall, the most significant remnant of Eagle Rock City, declared a Historical Cultural Monument. The declaration led to a refurbishment of the building for use as a community center. (photograph Julius Shulman, City of LA)
Henry Welcome, the first president of our society, shown here browsing his extensive library in November of 1961. Welcome was an inveterate collector and historian of Eagle Rock and the Los Angeles Area. (probably Joe Friezer-Eagle Rock Sentinel)
Cromwell Galpin, pictured here on the occasion of his election as Mayor of the City of Eagle Rock in 1914. Born in Eagle, Wisconsin in 1853 Galpin’s family moved to Appleton, where his father started a hardware business. Cromwell attended Lawrence University there. He received a Law Degree from the University of Michigan in 1875. He married Julia Wood with whom he had three children. They moved to Saginaw where he began a law practice but soon become editor of the Evening News of Saginaw. After Eagle Rock became a city in 1911, he was elected to the City Board of Trustees serving until 1922 and was the mayor of Eagle Rock from 1914 to 1916. Galpin’s articles for the Sentinel in 1913 about water supplies and farming provide insight into the farming period from the point of view of a businessman and developer. (Eagle Rock Sentinel)
This formal portrait shows an impressive Emma Elinor Young with the Young’s adopted daughter Amber in 1906, the year they arrived in Eagle Rock. Mrs. Young was a pioneer clubwoman, historian, lecturer and authority on California History and Landmarks. For over fifty years she urged Californians to preserve their heritage. Her love of pageantry and reenactment caught the attention of many children and adults in Eagle Rock, teaching them, gently, the importance of the past.
Mrs. Young was born Emma Elinor Hine on May 27, 1869, in Geneseo, Illinois and grew up on a farm there. The youngest of eight children, she went to Northwest Normal School, taught school, and participated in the kindergarten movement when it started in this country. She was the principal of Annawan School in Illinois for many years.
On November 23, 1899 Emma married Charles W. Young, at Geneseo. They left Illinois and in 1906 they located in Eagle Rock. There they purchased the Ellis home, a three-story Victorian farmhouse, built in 1888. They called the house “Castle Crags”.
(Louanna Clark, Emma Young Collection-ERVHS)