This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Lost Chinese of Lompoc Valley and Gin Chow’s Fame
The Lompoc Valley’s Chinese population from the 1880s to 1920s is largely undocumented with few graves marked in Lompoc Cemetery. Gin Chow, a famed weather prophet who moved to Lompoc in 1911, published two almanacs and predicted events including the 1925 Tokyo earthquake before his 1933 death in Santa Barbara.
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Lompoc
Shinee
Gin Chow
Walter Spanne
San Pasqual Road
Spanne
John Begg
S. E Street
John
William
San Julian
Hollister
Pon Hon
China
Begg
Henry McCabe
Southern Pacific
Veda Perkins
S. H Street
Veda
James Richardson
Richardson
Lynden
Vandenberg
Rodger’s
Ah Look
San Joaquin Valley
Central Coast
Tokyo
United States
U.S
Goleta
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
la Feaux
Old Country
Col. W. W. Hollister
Glen Annie
Goleta Valley
East Valley
L.A
Chinatown
Joss
Lom
California
K Street
Océan
Inouye
Peter Artinez
Pete Martinez
Lompocross House