Huntington Beach Historical Society

02/25/2024

We need you to be our Paul Revere! Spread the word! The Regulars are coming! Ready your muskets! The Revolution is mere days away!

Help us bring history to life for our community and join us Saturday & Sunday, 2nd & 3rd March 2024!

Full schedule on HBhistory.org/revolution

02/10/2024

01/17/2024

https://youtu.be/SgWtmQk_S5w?si=yIlHff_thjD3Rt6j

Chris Epting interviews Eric Katzmaier, designer of Huntington Beach's Central Park

01/05/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=620O1LWyUUE

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12/22/2023

The Freeman River disappeared from Orange County in the early 20th Century. Attempts to preserve it repeatedly escalated to armed conflict a...

09/04/2023

31 Days of : Huntington Beach Central Library opened in April 1975. The original building designed by Richard and Dion Neutra was expanded in 1994 with the addition of a childrens' wing, theater and meeting rooms. More details at https://bit.ly/47CNmhv

08/22/2023

08/12/2023

Looking forward to some of our new programs!

The 97th Regiment of US Colored Troops will be giving a talk on African American service in the Civil War on both Saturday & Sunday!

08/27/2022

One week away!

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04/13/2022

It was time to step back from 12 & 13 February 2022 to the winter of 1777, in the middle of the American Revolution!As the Continental Forces prepared to mee...

03/12/2022

MISINFORMATION / DISINFORMATION: THE STRUCTURES AND/OR HISTORIC WINTERSBURG PROPERTY ARE NOT "HISTORIC LANDMARKS"?

ANSWER: ELIGIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

We have seen comments on other pages that the six structures at Historic Wintersburg are not local or historic landmarks. They actually have a higher designation than a "local landmark."

During a citywide historic resources survey, each of the six structures at Historic Wintersburg were provided the designation of "eligible for the National Register of Historic Places." The survey and this official designation are included in the City of Huntington Beach General Plan historic and cultural element.

Per the outside expert consultant hired by the City of Huntington Beach to conduct the survey, GPA Consulting:
"Properties that are formally determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places are automatically listed on the California Register of Historical Resources. Furthermore, properties listed on a local inventory of historic resources are presumed to be historically significant under CEQA. Therefore, under the California Code, the subject properties are historical resources for the purposes of CEQA and should be treated as historical resources for all local, state and federal laws."

The image provided here are directly from the City of Huntington Beach historic resources survey, a public document. The Historic Wintersburg structures are within the red box. The three (3) structures for the Wintersburg Japanese Mission are circled in green. The second page showing the 1947 Furuta ranch house will be added to the comments section.

Source: City of Huntington Beach

03/08/2022

ABOVE: The 1910 Manse (parsonage) of the Wintersburg Japanese Mission, in 2014 just prior to the purchase of Rainbow Environmental by Rep...

03/06/2022

ABOVE: What remains of the 1910 Wintersburg Japanese Mission and the 1910 Manse (parsonage). The Manse was on fire, however the Mission bu...

03/01/2022

Welcome to Women's History Month!

Front and center in this image from the Cole Ranch, circa 1915, is Yukiko Yajima Furuta (left) and her sister, Masuko Yajima Akiyama, at right. Masuko's body language tells a story. These were strong women, who came to a new country to create a new life.

Yukiko's husband, Charles Mitsuji Furuta, is at left holding their first child, Raymond. Masuko's husband and fellow goldfish farmer, Henry Akiyama is at right holding their child.

The Cole Ranch was located where Oceanview High School is today, off Warner Avenue and roughly two blocks from Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach.

Photo: Courtesy of the Furuta family © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED