Frenchtown Confidential

Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.

Showing posts with label Great Big Map of Everything French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Big Map of Everything French. Show all posts
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Erasing Frenchtown in Maps

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I have been mapping historic French LA for 8.5 years. It's harder than it looks. Among the many, MANY changes to the street grid, the in...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

BREAKING NEWS: El Aliso Vineyard was NOT on the site of Union Station!

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Most sources - including older ones - state that Jean-Louis Vignes' vineyard, El Aliso, was "about where Union Station is today....
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Where Was Frenchtown? Mapping a Lost Community

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In the fall of 2014, I bought an old, well-worn copy of The French in Southern California History and the Southland Today , published in 193...
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C.C. de Vere
I'm a native Angeleno and my primary ethnicity is French. Searching for my own roots led me to discover a long-ignored French community in my native Southern California. Now I'm telling its stories.
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