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Since 1952, the Fallbrook Woman’s Club House has been in the historic A.J. Clark Residence.  This building has been here on the same spot since it was built by Fallbrook’s first banker Almond Jack (A.J.) Clark in 1887.  A.J. Clark and his wife Belle, selected this choice lot for their home soon after the town of West Fallbrook was surveyed in 1885 (map1).

Between the years when the Club was founded, and when it obtained the A.J. Clark residence, the Woman’s Club has been headquartered in different buildings around town.  The buildings have changed ownership and occasionally physical moved up from one place to another, confusing the trail.



Old Masonic Hall. The Fallbrook Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club was founded in May 1907[1].  Within a few months the Saturday Afternoon Club arranged to rent space upstairs in the Masonic Hall on Main Ave, one of the oldest intact buildings in Fallbrook today.  The map here refers to this building as the “old Masonic Hall”.  Built in 1887 as a restaurant downstairs with a family residence upstairs, the Masons bought the building in 1894.[2]



Contrary to their name, the Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse was open on more than just Saturday afternoons.  In 1911, the Club was started a free reading room that was open on Tuesday evenings for anyone who wanted to relax in their clubhouse to read donated books and magazines.[3]  This was the beginning of the Club’s interest in starting a public library, which came to fruition in May 1913.[4]  The Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club frequently arranged to hold receptions and public events on other days as well.  There was always something scheduled at the Woman’s Clubhouse.  On Thursday evening, March 20, 1913, the Club hosted a banquet at the Masonic Hall for the Fallbrook Commercial Club[5], the forerunner to the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce.  A popular event at the Clubhouse was the monthly Saturday evening strawberry and ice cream fundraiser.





Crane Hall.  The Fallbrook Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club often put on plays and concerts.  For these events, they needed more space and they turned to the nearby Crane Hall.  There are conflicting reports regarding the exact location for Crane Hall.  Bob White a longtime editor of the Fallbrook Enterprise in the 1950s & 60s, stated that Crane Hall was south of Elder St.  Other accounts put Crane Hall a block or two north around Fig St.  The precise location has not been determined.

The Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club purchased Crane Hall in May 1915 and immediately moved their headquarters to the larger building.  This would be the Woman’s Clubhouse for the next 25 years.  Knowing that the coming railroad would require the whole building to be moved, the Woman’s Club began buying town lots north of Vine Street.  In November 1916, a few months before the railroad tracks were laid, Crane Hall was moved to the Woman’s Club block on N. Main Ave between Ivy St. and Juniper (now called Mission Rd.).[6]  For many years, from 1919 until 1936, they showed weekly movies in this building[7] in addition to their many regular activities of that included monthly dances.  The Woman’s Club gradually bought up the lots around the clubhouse, planting the property with trees.  Their stated intention was to develop a park around the clubhouse that the whole community could enjoy.[8]

However, circumstances changed over the years.  Fallbrook never incorporated, and a city never formed to take charge of the park they were designing.  Expenses for the properties were a financial burden.  A growing military buildup on the new Marine Corps base and the construction of the Ammunition Depot caused a severe housing shortage in the area.  The Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club was persuaded to sell Crane Hall in 1940.  It was then remodeled to be a hotel for workers on the Ammunition Depot and renamed the Palms Hotel.  About the same time, the Club also accepted generous terms to sell two of their lots to Safeway at the corner of Ivy and Main. 

Model Home.  With the loss of their Clubhouse, the Woman’s Club began meeting in members’ homes or in the nearby high school facilities on Ivy St.  The Home Economic Department Model Home became the usual meeting place for the next 10 years.  During WWII many of the Women were Red Cross volunteers and the clubhouse was turned over to Red Cross activities, as they had done during WWI.[9]





2nd Masonic Lodge.  The old Masonic Hall was becoming obsolescent.  In 1948,  the Masons bought a surplus barracks from the Ammunition Depot and moved it to property they bought at the corner of Hill St and Kalmia.[10]  The Woman’s Club began to rent meeting space at this newest Masonic lodge, until they could have their own building again.



 A.J. Clark Home.  This is the modern Woman’s Clubhouse since 1952.  Fallbrook’s first banker, A.J. Clark and his wife Belle, hadbuilt this home on the corner of Juniper and Hill (now Mission) in 1887.  After the Clarks passed, Frank and Ella Fallis bought the home and lived here for the remainder of their lives.  In January 1952, the Woman’s Club bought the Fallis estate which included the large house plus 11 lots.[11]  This has been the Woman’s Clubhouse for the past 60 years.

Tom Frew,
FHS Historian

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[1]) Fallbrook Enterprise, August 31, 1917, The Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club.

[2]) Fallbrook Historic Resources Inventory prepared September 1991 for the County of San Diego, by Susan Carrico
   & Kathleen Flanigan.

[3])Fallbrook Enterprise, April 7, 1911. 

[4]) The Historian, Fall 2021, The History of the Fallbrook Library.

[5])Fallbrook Enterprise, March 7, 1913. 

[6])Fallbrook Enterprise, November 3, 1916. 

[7])The Historian, Summer 2022. Historic Theaters of Fallbrook.

[8])Fallbrook Enterprise, May 2, 1924. 

[9])Fallbrook Enterprise, January 8, 1952.

[10]) Fallbrook in Review Volume 5 pg. 12 Masonic Lodge.

[11]) Fallbrook Enterprise, January 8, 1952.

FALLBROOK WOMAN’S CLUB

Founded in May 1907 the Fallbrook Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club, soon became the Fallbrook Woman’ Club.  In 1952, the Fallbrook Woman’s Club House moved to the historic A.J. Clark Residence, which was built by Fallbrook’s first banker Almond Jack (A.J.) Clark in 1887. 

Contrary to their name, the Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse was open on more than just Saturday afternoons.  In 1911, the Club started a free reading room that was open on Tuesday evenings and was the beginning of the Club’s interest in starting a public library, which came to fruition in May 1913. The Woman’s Saturday Afternoon Club frequently arranged to hold receptions and public events on other days as well.  There was always something scheduled at the Woman’s Clubhouse.  On Thursday evening, March 20, 1913, the Club hosted a banquet at the Masonic Hall for the Fallbrook Commercial Club, the forerunner to the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce.  A popular event at the Clubhouse was the monthly Saturday evening strawberry and ice cream fundraiser.

Opening in May 1913, Fallbrook was the first San Diego County library branch. The library was due to the efforts of The Fallbrook Woman’s Club which offered to provide space, lights, shelving, appointing a librarian, and to raise a portion of the librarian’s salary.

The Woman’s Club of Fallbrook opened their own Movie House in June 1919 promising to show clean elevating movies and promised that Movie House profits would go into their building fund, so the money would come back to the town as improvements to their community center. The Woman’s Club Thursday night movies continued weekly for the next six years, then paused in the late 1920s. Reopening In 1931, The Woman’s Club ‘Fallbrook Theater’, as they now called it, reopened showing talkie movies twice per week. Admission was now 40 cents for adults, 15 cents for children under 12. In addition to movies, the Club often put on plays and concerts

During WWII many of the Women were Red Cross volunteers and the clubhouse was turned over to Red Cross activities, as they had done during WWI.

In 1917, the club sponsored the first Girl Scout Troop west of the Mississippi, White Rose Troop No. 1. In 1919, the club founded the first public library in Fallbrook, which was housed in the clubhouse.

During World War II, members organized the local USO, volunteered for the Red Cross, taught first-aid classes and helped take care of injured servicemen.

In 1951, the club purchased property on West Mission Street, two blocks west of North Main Street. The property included two houses built in 1876. The larger house is the current clubhouse with the garage converted to the caretaker’s cottage and the smaller house is used as a rental property.

The club proudly displays an original 1906 El Camino Real Guidepost Mission Bell used by Spanish missionaries to establish the King’s Highway connecting California missions and a ~1872 surrey donated by the Heald family of Fallbrook. The California Federation of Women’s Club replaced all the Mission Bells when Route 101 was realigned.

Countless hours of volunteer work have been given unselfishly by members to schools, churches, the hospital auxiliary, club and district activities. Members have fostered self-improvement, striven for community betterment, encouraged education and have been involved in the heart of the community since its inception. In November 2007, the club celebrated their 100th anniversary.

The Fallbrook Woman’s Club is a member of the California Federations Women’s Clubs and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs International. Its goal is to encourage women to improve their community, state and nation through volunteering their time, talents and interest. General meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month except July and August at the Fallbrook Woman’s Club at 10 a.m.

For more information, read the article “Clubhouses of the Fallbrook Woman’s Club”

The meanings of street names are often obscure, but they are not random. They can reflect the local history and commemorate people and events that are deemed to be important to the local community. Street names can be considered cultural markers of a town and its history.

   This is the first installment of street names studied by the Fallbrook Historical Society.  More will be added in the future.  Comments on these or other street names are welcome.

Alvarado Street:   One of the oldest streets in Fallbrook, it is shown on the first official map of West Fallbrook in 1885.  This street is named for Ysidro Alvarado and his family, 1846 ranchers and owners of the 33,383-acre Rancho Monserrate.  Ysidro Alvarado, the son of a Spanish soldier, was the first settler of European descent in the Fallbrook area.  Ysidro, his wife and 3 children are one of the few non-native households listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for this area.  More on the Alvarado family and the Rancho Monserrate can be read in the 2020 Spring Historian

Ammunition Road:  Beginningat Mission Road, Ammunition leads to and traverses through the Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD). The NAD was opened in 1942 during WWII.  In addition to its military personnel, the NAD has been a significant employer of Fallbrook civilians.  Inside the military reservation, at the Camp Pendleton side of the NAD, this street is called Fallbrook Road.

Ash St:  A small, little-noticed street, it is cut in half by the Pico Promenade. The street is named for Fred Ash, a native of England. Fred Ash was a widower who made his home here in the middle of Fallbrook’s business district, from about 1900 until he died in 1938.  The 1926 directory says the Ash residence was 2 doors north of the NW corner of Main & Fallbrook Street, about where Ash Street is today.  Fred Ash opened a gas station at the corner of Main Ave & Beech St. when Main Ave was first paved in 1921.  Today, 100 years later, in 2022, the Main Street Café is located at Ash’s old gas station.

Aviation Rd:  In 1918, this road led to an infrequently-used small dirt airstrip near O.A. Anderson’s ranch.  When aircraft activity was noticed, town folk would drive their Model Ts one mile SW of town to park near the small air field and watch private pilots practicing takeoffs and landings.  This unmaintained, little used dirt airstrip soon disappeared into the landscape. But the road had earned its name.  Aviation Road is first mentioned in Fallbrook in 1921 as a boundary for the proposed Fallbrook Irrigation District.

Brandon Rd.  This road is named for Albert Brandon and his family who had their home and a small farm here.  Albert Brandon was a Civil War veteran who arrived in Fallbrook prior to 1910.  Albert and his sons built the family home in 1911 on the SW corner of today’s Brandon Road and Alvarado.  The modernized building still stands. More details are in the article “The Brandons of Brandon Road” .

Burma Road: An unconfirmed story is that some truckers nicknamed this road because of a resemblance to the road that convoys traveled on in Asia during World War II.

Capra Way:  Frank Capra was a famous Hollywood director, and Academy award winner.  This road led to the Red Mountain Ranch that Capra owned from 1939 until the 1960s.  Capra built his retirement home on Red Mountain, frequently entertaining Fallbrook residents and Hollywood celebrities. 

Ceramic Lane:  Robyn’s Ceramics factory was located on the north side of West Dougherty Street one block west of De Luz or Pico Rd. The factory employed as many as 20 people at a time from 1948 to 1954.  Robyn Sikking was a well-known Fallbrook artist who designed ceramic figurines.  She and her husband sold the these by mail order and in their gift shop on Main Ave in Fallbrook.

Charles Swisher Court:   Charles E. Swisher attended Fallbrook elementary and high schools.  He was on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor in Dec 1941.  Swisher was the 1st Fallbrook boy to die in WWII.  The Fallbrook VFW Hall on Old Stage Road is also named after him. 

Clemmens Lane:  Named forAlbert Clemmens & his family who had their home and a citrus orchard here.  Albert Clemmens arrived in Fallbrook with his parents in 1897.  He saved money from his job to buy 13 acres here for $5 an acre in 1907.  West Clemmens Lane roughly approximates the southern boundary of their property. The family home was located at the NE corner of Clemmens Lane and Alturas Road, across the street from today’s Oddfellows Cemetery.  Albert became the first general manager of the Fallbrook Citrus Association in 1916.  The whole Clemmens family is buried directly across from their historical home on a plot of land they donated and attached to the Oddfellows.  

Dougherty Street:  This street is probably named for an early land speculator in West Fallbrook. During the land boom of the 1880s, this area was central to the new town.  The name Dougherty is listed as one of the investors of the grand Francis E. Willard hotel in 1887.  There is no evidence that Dougherty put down roots here and lived in Fallbrook.

Dulin Road:   The Dulin Ranch was here in the early to mid 1900s.

Gird Road:   Henry Gird, a Los Angeles rancher, bought 4,590 acres of the middle section of the Monserrate Ranch in 1880 and built the family home here.
 

Golden Road:  Mary E. Golden planted an Avocado Grove here on this property.  Born 1880 in England, Mary Golden had been a teacher in Chicago before retiring to Fallbrook.  She was an active member of the Fallbrook Woman’s Club, the Red Cross, the AAUW, Fallbrook Friends of the Library, and the Retired Teachers Assn.  Golden was a school board trustee for both the Fallbrook Elementary and High Schools simultaneously.   She died in 1968 in Fallbrook, at age 88.

Hamilton Road:  There was a Hamilton Ranch here from 1919 until the 1960s.  Originally settled by George Whitaker and family in 1888, Etta & Jay Hamilton bought the Whitaker property in 1919, renaming it Hamilton Ranch.  After Etta Hamilton became a widow, she continued to operate the orchards until the 1960s.   She was helped by her son James Hamilton.

Hellers Bend:  This section of road took its name from a large billboard that stood here on a curve of U.S. 395, advertising the Hellers grocery store chain that was in San Diego in the 1920s.  Prior to 1949, U.S. 395 was a series of S curves that followed Ostrich Creek winding through the low hills south of Fallbrook.  Hellers Bend was the notorious scene of many accidents.  More information can be found in “The Search for how Hellers Bend got it’s name”

Hughes Lane:   Walter & Gertrude Hughes and children came here in 1931 to live on their 10-acre Silver Springs Ranch. Gertrude opened a roadside sandwich shop beside a gasoline pump to serve motorists along Hwy 395.  The Silver Springs Café became a popular restaurant to travelers and Fallbrook residents as well.  Gertrude Hughes also became Fallbrook’s first florist, selling the flowers that she raised. 

James Gaynor Street:   Sgt Major James Gaynor USMC, was a veteran of 3 wars; WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.  Gaynor, his wife and son lived in Fallbrook.  Gaynor was killed in Vietnam in Feb. 1968. 

Mackey Drive:  Wilbur Mackey (1909-1966) was owner & publisher of the Fallbrook Enterprise from 1955 until his death in 1966.  After his death, his wife Marian Mackey continued as newspaper publisher. 

Magarian Road:  Named for Malcolm G. Magarian, a pioneer real estate developer who put in Fallbrook’s 1st subdivision of 60 homes here in the 1960s.  Magarian, an Armenian born in Turkey in 1894, had survived a 1915 massacre of hundreds of Armenians and many of his family before immigrating to the U.S.  He served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Europe during WWI.  He came to Fallbrook as part of the construction crew to build Camp Pendleton in 1940.  Later, in 1945 he purchased the whole block on the west side of Main Ave from Alvarado to Hawthorne St.  A few years later he renovated the whole block, constructing a modern building, known as the ‘Magarian’ building.  

McDonald Road:   Named for Baylis M. McDonald and family.  Bayliss McDonald and his sons owned an 80-acre avocado farm here at the south end of McDonald Rd.

Ohearn Road:   Edward J. Ohearn and family had their home and an orchard here.  Born in Ohio to Scotch/Irish parents, Ohearn came to Fallbrook in 1919 and died here in 1938.  His sons Edward P. and Vince Ohearn became well-known Fallbrook realtors.

Pico Road:  Jose Maria Pico was an 1870s rancher and a nephew of the former California governor Pio Pico.   Old maps from 1870s show the J.M. Pico home located where Fallbrook High School is today, at about the intersection of today’s Mission Rd & Stagecoach Ln, which was the NW corner of the Rancho Monserrate.  The wagon road that passed near Pico’s home stretched north/south between the railroad station at the Santa Margarita River to the Pala Road at the San Luis Rey River.  Most of this has since been re-named as Mission Road, except for this short section in the center of Fallbrook still known as Pico Rd.  Read more about Pico Road here “2019 Spring Historian”

Potter St:  James E. Potter (1894-1947) was Fallbrook’s first school superintendent.  In the 1920s, Potter owned several properties surrounding the old high school on Ivy St. where he worked.  Presumably he owned a lot here as well.  Potter later built a home a few blocks west of here.  More information can be found in our featured article: “James E. Potter”

Reche Road:  Vital Reche was the first American settler here in 1869 and gave Fallbrook its name when he named his ranch Fall Brook. Reche’s home and store were located around today’s Live Oak Park.  Reche Rd. roughly approximates the northern boundary of the Rancho Monserrate which was established in 1846 by Ysidro Alvarado (See Alvarado St.).  Vital Reche and his son Charles cleared the wagon road that eventually became Reche’s Road.

Rice Canyon Road:  Two brothers, John and Fabian Rice homesteaded here about 1891. 

Stewart Canyon Rd:  Will Stewart and his family homesteaded this canyon in 1887.  Read more on the Steward and Rice families here: “How Stewart and Rice Canyons got their names” .

Tom McGuiness Jr. Circle:    Tom McGuiness Jr. was an American Airlines pilot.  He died on 9/11 in the first hijacked plane to hit the twin towers.   He and his wife had settled in Fallbrook in the 1980s.  Their 2 children had attended local schools here before the family moved back to New Hampshire in the year 2000. 

Wilt Road:   Wilt Road runs near what used to be called the Vernon Wilt Ranch in the 1950s. There is also a side road nearby called Vern Drive.  Vernon K. Wilt came to Fallbrook in 1916 with his parents when he was 10 years old.  He attended Fallbrook Elementary & High Schools.  He graduated from UCLA with a BS in Agriculture in 1936.   In 1950 he purchased 2,500 acres of the old Pankey Ranch west of Hwy 395. The Wilt Ranch grew avocados and citrus.  V.K. Wilt was on the board of directors of Calavo. 

Tom Frew
FHS Historian

Bruce and Carolyn Ganoe

 Bruce and Carolyn have spent much of their 60 years of married life gathering skills and experiences that now they are using to care for and restore the Society’s two unique historical buildings. Here is their story and the reasons for being named Members of the Year.

Carolyn Frey and Bruce Ganoe met as juniors at Oceanside Carlsbad Union High School because they sat next to each other in Miss Bradley’s English class. They dated briefly through high school but after graduation Bruce attended Rice University in Houston, Texas and Carolyn attended San Diego State. Carolyn later moved to Virginia where she worked at the Pentagon. They visited when they could and the day after Bruce graduated and received his commission as an Ensign in the Navy they were married in Carolyn’s home town, Fort Worth, Texas. Bruce served as Engineering Officer on a small ship home ported in San Diego and later as Aide to The Commander, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Public Information Officer for the Shipyard and The Naval Base at Bremerton, Washington.

 After his release from the Navy the family moved to Glendora, Ca. where Bruce worked for a small manufacturing firm. Carolyn was kept busy with their four children Allyson, Julie, Phillip and Melissa born in Coronado, Bremerton and Glendora. The family moved to San Diego where Bruce joined General Dynamics Astronautics working on the Atlas and Centaur space launch programs and later on the Tomahawk Cruise Missile program. Carolyn was engaged in a number of volunteer organizations including Children’s Hospital Aux, Scouts, Woman’s Club and their local church and school. After many years in San Diego with the children grown, the Ganoe’s moved to Tucson where Bruce was a Vice President in charge of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile Program. Carolyn was again engaged as a volunteer with The Assistance League and the Arizona Opera Guild.

Upon retirement the Ganoe’s wanted to return to the West Coast and found Fallbrook to be an attractive place to call home. In Fallbrook, Carolyn became active with the Live Oak Chapter of the Questers and was active as a member and then chairman of the Preservation and Restoration Committee. The first project she was involved with was the restoration of the Pittenger House kitchen, built originally by Civil War Medal of Honor recipient William Pittenger in 1895. Bruce “volunteered” to put up bead board in the kitchen. “As we worked on the kitchen and saw the results, I was motivated to move on to the rest of the house” said Carolyn. They joined the Historical Society and have spent the last 11 years renovating and furnishing the house. When a grant for painting the exterior of the house fell short the couple guaranteed that the work would be completed. “Doing the Pittenger House has been true labor of love,” Carolyn said. “I enjoyed every minute of it.”

When the Historical Society acquired ownership of the 1886 Fall Brook Reche School, Bruce wrote a grant request for renovating, painting and new lighting. He managed the refurbishment project and budget every day through completion. He is continuing to work on additional restoration and improvements including ADA compliant restrooms and air conditioning. Carolyn created a class room vignette at the schoolhouse prior to the grand opening to the public last September. “Preserving history adds to the fabric of a place and to the people,” Bruce explained. “It enriches us all’. The Ganoe’s volunteer as Docents at the Museum where Carolyn is Curator of the Pittenger House and Bruce is a member of the Board of Directors as Funds Chairman.

• Traveling Ring at Reche Schoolhouse (posted 20-09-06)
• Reed Family California Pioneers (posted 2026-03-15)
• The Dutch Bakery (posted 2025-12-22)
• Frank Capra (posted 2025-10-02)
• A Sketch of Bonsall History (posted 2025-08-15)
• Henry Rodriquez, Luiseño Elder (posted 2025-07-18)
• Honey, Fallbrook’s Earliest Crop (posted 2025-05-13)
• History of the Shipley Residence (127 Social House) (posted 2025-01-26)
• Fallbrook’s Pearl Harbor Veterans (posted 2024-2-19)
• Robyn’s Ceramics (posted 2024-10-31)
• The Scout Hut (posted 2024-07-21)
• The Maie Ellis Story (posted 2024-04-15)
• A Timeline of California History (posted 2024-03-21)
• Safeway in Fallbrook (posted 2024-01-25)
• Pittenger House Trees (posted 2023-12-16)
• Historic Dodge Dealership (posted 2023-09-26)
• Pioneer Lumber Yards of Fallbrook (posted 2023-08-03
• The Dr. Morgan story (posted 2023-07-24)
• Founding of The Fallbrook Historical Society (posted 2023-06-03)
• Fallbrook’s WWII Casualties (posted 2023-05-31)
• Watkins Livery Stable (posted 2023-03-30)
• Fallbrook’s Vietnam Casualties (posted 2023-03-29)
• Fallbrook Soap Box Derby (posted 2023-02-12)
• History of the Miss Fallbrook Pageant (posted 2023-01-29)
• Clubhouses of the Fallbrook Woman’s Club (posted 2022=-10-31)
• Landmark at Main Ave & Fallbrook St. (posted 2022-09-21)
• Biography of Bob White, Enterprise Editor (posted 2022-08-16)
• Founding of the Fallbrook Boys & Girls Club (posted -07-30)
• Bailey Building and Telephone History in Fallbrook (posted 2022-06-08)
• The Palomares Ranch House (posted 2022-04-30)
• The Watkins House (posted 2022-004-02)
• Hindorff Adobe (Updated 2022-03-17)
• Ostrich Creek Bridge (posted 2022-02-20)
• Street names of Fallbrook (posted 2022-01-13)
• Los Jilgueros in Fallbrook History (posted 2021-11-14)
• Woodbury’s Newsstand (posted 2021-10-28)
• The First Fallbrook Masonic Lodge (posted 2021-08-14)
• The Brandons of Brandon Road (posted 2021-07-29)
• Judge Smelser’s Cabin (posted 2021-06-21)
• The Search for How Heller’s Bend got its Name (posted 2021-05-18)
• Ice Age Bison in Fallbrook (posted 2021-04-25)
• Bedrock Milling Sites in Fallbrook (posted 2021-03-27)
• How Stewart and Rice Canyons got their names (posted 2021-03-10)
• Civil War Veterans in Early Fallbrook (posted 2021-02-25)
• Early Doctors of Fallbrook (posted 2021-01-31)
• H.H. Bowen, An Odd Fellows Cemetery Mystery (posted 2020-12-22)
• History of the Odd Fellows Hall (posted 2020-11-03)
• History of Fallbrook Village Association (posted 2020-10-30)
• Founding of the Fallbrook Senior Center (posted 2020-10-30)
• The History of Heritage Hall (posted 2020-10-11)
• History of Fallbrook Regional Health District (posted 2020-07-27)
• Naming of Fallbrook VFW Post (posted 2020-05-22)
• Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce History (posted 2020-05-05)
• James E. Potter (posted 2020-04-22)
• Rancho Guajome (posted 2020-03-24)
• The Illustrated History of the Olive Industry of Fallbrook (posted 2020-03-19)
• Origin of the Name of De Luz (posted 2019-12-30)
• Fallbrook Fertilizer Building (posted 2019-07-02)
• How Rainbow got its Name (posted 2019-06-19)
• Victoria Pedrorena An 1879 Teacher in the Fall Brook District (posted 2019-06-06)
• Loma Ranch (posted 2018-10-23)
• Stage Coach Roads (posted 2018-09-05)
• A Brief History of the Luiseño (posted 2018-08-21)
• History of the Fallbrook Citrus Association (posted 2018-07-05)
• Fallbrook’s 100+-year-old Ficus (posted 2017-12-30)

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Jane Baldwin	Virginia Grossman	Mr. &  Mrs. Carroll Njust
Donna Boren	Victor Hansen	Mr. &  Mrs. Bill O’Connor
Anne Burdick	Bill Hansen	Mr. &  Mrs. Ric Ordway
Alice C. Clarno	Mr. &  Mrs. Otis Heald	Wanda Reaume
Village Properties Coldwell Banker	Gordon Heath	Hedy Roripaugh
Marianne Dickey	Brad & Karen Harris	Mrs. Conrad Schuck
Jane Donath	Mr. &  Mrs. Hadley Johnson	Scrappy’s Tire &  Auto
Ila Driver	Nancy Knox	Kathleen Stiles
Fallbrook Garden Club	Mr. &  Mrs. Dode Martin	Mr. &  Mrs. Charles Thomas
Fallbrook Woman’s Club	Michael B. McDonald	Alice Wheaton
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ganoe	Mr. &  Mrs. Earl McDougal	Charlotte Wojcik-Caniat
Jo Griset	Mr. &  Mrs. Don McLean	Tom & Joy Frew

Lifetime Members

Elizabeth Anthony	Betty Gilby	Roy Moosa
Donald A. Anthony	Mr. &  Mrs. Charles Gilchrist	Marie Morse
Philip Arnold	Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gillespie	Donna &  Kenneth Niemeier
Scott and Vicky Atkins	Richard Gird	Tom Odendahl
Nicholas Baumgartner	Mr. &  Mrs. Charles Graeber	Viola Orcutt
Sandi Baxter	Jim Grevatt	Mr. &  Mrs. Bill Ottemann
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benjamin	Mr. &  Mrs. Craig Grimm	Mr. &  Mrs. Michael Palculich
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Borst	Dorothy Grossman	Jack P. Parkinson
Barbara Bradford	Rick Harmon	Dr. Larry C. Parks
Daniel Branson	Lorena Harris	Nile Peterson
Ronne Branson	Ken and Carol Harrison	Edna Poehner
Mr. and Mrs. Garth Bricker	Mr. &  Mrs. David Hedrick	Maxine Qualls
Dr. &  Mrs. Wm. Brown	Gary and Kathy Hesser	Margaret Ray
Steve & Peggy Brown	Helen Hinchliff	Leo and Barbara Romero
Helen Burr	Laura Hindorff	Mr. &  Mrs. Loren Rugg
Leland M. Cave	Virginia Howard	Jo Anne Schooley
Cathy Chocolas	Jackie Hughes Jackson	Mr. &  Mrs. Alan Serry
Marion Clemmens	Mr. &  Mrs. Frank Jerome	Mr. &  Mrs. Lee Shaeffer
Lori Cook	Mr. Harmon Johnson	Dr. &  Mrs. Elden Shields
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curtis	Ron Kelley	Patricia Showalter
Lois Davis	Laurence Kinney	Mr. &  Mrs Robert Skare
Mr. &  Mrs. Duane Dawes	Mr. &  Mrs. Don Kramer	Mr. &  Mrs. Ralph Steinhoff
Marisa and Greg Dehm	Norma Kruse	Mr. &  Mrs. Curt Stika
Lois Dickson	Dr. &  Mrs. Allan Larner	Mr. &  Mrs. Jack Story
Donoghue Family	Jessie Lee	Rodney Stuart
Jeff & Ardis Duhachek	A. Spencer Lehmann	Karen Tanner
Don and Peggy Durling	Sherri Lenfers	Valerie and Eric Thruelsen
Mr. &  Mrs. Darwin East	Richard Levering	Wallace Tucker
Wayne and Carol Elder	Mr. &  Mrs. Sam Logan	Mr. &  Mrs. Russ Vatnsdal
Eva Ellia	Thomas Lowe	Mr. &  Mrs. Sonny Vogt
Fallbrook Alumni Assoc., Inc.	Joellen Maddock	Jody &  Joan Williams
Bob, Shirley &  Samantha Fender	Adrienne Marshall	Rick Windbigler
Sherry Folsom	Douglas McCormac	Dan Wireman
Mr. &  Mrs. Ralph Foster	Kathy McGoldrick	Douglas Wireman
Mr. &  Mrs. Harry Freeman	Jane McKee	Chris Woodbury
Mrs. Randall Geddes	Kristi McLean	Jauher Zaidi
Thea Moore	Bob and Jeannie Miller	Marci Eisenstadt

#	Date	Article Name & Link	Publication
1	2017 Winter	Historic Ficus Tree	Historian
2	2018 Spring	Hindorff Shed	Historian
3	2018 Summer	Lemon Packing Plant	Historian
4	2018 Fall	Stagecoach Roads	Historian
5	2018 October	Loma Ranch	Featured Article
6	2018 Winter	Fallbrook Historic 1900 Signature Quilt	Historian
7	2019 Spring	Fallbrook High School	Historian
8	2019 May	Fallbrook Mural in Denny’s Restaurant	Facebook
9	2019 June	How Rainbow got its Name	Featured Article
10	2019 July	Fallbrook Fertilizer Building	Featured Article
11	2019 Summer	Pico Ave.	Historian
12	2019 Fall	Founding of Fallbrook	Historian
13	2019 Winter	Train Tracks thru Fallbrook	Historian
14	2019 December	Origin of the Name of De Luz	Featured Article
15	2020 Jan.	Brief history of the Luiseno	Time Again
16	2020 March	The Illustrated History of the Olive Industry of Fallbrook	Featured Article
17	2020 March	Rancho Guajome	Featured Article
18	2020 March	Vietnam Day, Dennis Kipp USMC	Facebook
19	2020 April	James E. Potter	Featured Article
20	2020 Spring	Rancho Monserate	Historian
21	2020 May	Don Rivers Story	Time Again
22	2020 May	Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce History	Featured Article
23	2020 May	Naming of Fallbrook VFW Post	Featured Article
24	2020 Summer	The Tracy Family	Historian
25	2020 July	History of Fallbrook Regional Health District	Featured Article
26	2020 Fall	Early Fallbrook Businesses	Historian
27	2020 October	The History of Heritage Hall	Featured Article
28	2020 October	Founding of the Fallbrook Senior Center	Featured Article
29	2020 October	History of Fallbrook Village Association	Featured Article
30	2020 November	History of the Odd Fellows Hall	Featured Article
31	2020 Winter	Origin of Fallbrook Fire Dept.	Historian
32	2020 December	H.H. Bowen, An Odd Fellows Cemetery Mystery	Featured Article
33	2021 January	Early Doctors of Fallbrook	Featured Article
34	2021 February	Civil War Veterans in Early Fallbrook	Featured Article
35	2021 February	Margaret Ray	Time Again
36	2021 Spring	Early Fallbrook Newspapers	Historian
37	2021 March	How Stewart and Rice Canyons got their names	Featured Article
38	2021 March	Bedrock Milling Sites in Fallbrook	Featured Article
39	2021 May	Memorial Day, Fallbrook casualties; Ellis, Calac, 1 more	Facebook
40	2021 May	The Search for How Heller’s Bend got its Name	Featured Article
41	2021 April	Bell House	Time Again
42	2021 April	Ice Age Bison in Fallbrook	Featured Article
43	2021 May	Victoria Pedrorena Magee	Time Again
44	2021 Summer	History of Fallbrook Post Offices	Historian
45	2021 June	Judge Smelser’s Cabin	Featured Article
46	2021 July	The Brandons of Brandon Road	Featured Article
47	2021 August	The First Fallbrook Masonic Lodge	Featured Article
48	2021 September	Landmark at Main Ave & Fallbrook St.	Featured Article
49	2021 Fall	History of Fallbrook Library	Historian
50	2021 October	Woodbury’s Newsstand	Featured Article
51	2021 November	Los Jilgueros in Fallbrook History	Featured Article
52	2021 Winter	Horseshoes in Old Fallbrook	Historian
53	2022 January	Street names of Fallbrook	Featured Article
54	2022 January	Ostrich Creek Bridge	Featured Article
55	2022 January	Cardon Dodge Dealer	Facebook
56	2022 Spring	History of Aviation in Fallbrook	Historian
57	2022 April	Hindorff Adobe	Featured Article
58	2022 April	The Palomares Ranch House	Featured Article
59	2022 April	The Watkins House	Featured Article
60	2022 June	Bailey Building and Telephone History in Fallbrook	Featured Article
61	2022 June	Founding of the Fallbrook Boys & Girls Club	Featured Article
62	2022 Summer	Historic Theaters of Fallbrook	Historian
63	2022 August	Biography of Bob White, Enterprise Editor	Featured Article
64	2022 Fall	Early Churches of Fallbrook	Historian
65	2022 November	Clubhouses of the Fallbrook Woman’s Club	Featured Article
66	2022 Winter	Railroad in Santa Margarita Canyon	Historian
67	2023 January	History of the Miss Fallbrook Pageant	Featured Article
68	2023 February	Fallbrook Soap Box Derby	Featured Article
69	2023 Spring	Pioneer Days in Old Fallbrook	Historian
70	2023 March	Fallbrook’s Vietnam Casualties	Featured Article
71	2023 March	Watkins Livery Stable	Featured Article
72	2023 May	Founding of The Fallbrook Historical Society	Featured Article
73	2023 May	Fallbrook’s WWII Casualties	Featured Article
74	2023 Summer	The Grand Hotel of Fallbrook	Historian
75	2023 July	The Dr. Morgan Story	Featured Article
76	2023 July	Pioneer Lumber yards of Fallbrook	Featured Article
77	2023 Fall	Census Records of Fallbrook Families	Historian
78	2023 September	Historic Dodge Dealership	Featured Article
79	2023 December	Tommy’s Restaurant	Historian
80	2023 December	Pittenger House Trees	Featured Article
81	2024 January	Safeway in Fallbrook	Featured Article
82	2024 March	A Timeline of California History	Featured Article
83	2024 March	FHS Vintage Farm Equipment	Historian
84	2024 April	The Maie Ellis Story	Featured Article
85	2024 Summer	The Maie Ellis StoryWest Fallbrook Cornet Band	Historian
86	2024 July	The Scout Hut	Featured Article
87	2024 Fall	Lemonade Day in Fallbrook	Historian
88	2024 October	Robyn’s Ceramics	Featured Article
89	2024 December	Bonsall Bridge	Historian
90	2024 December	Fallbrook’s Perl Harbor Veterans	Featured Article
91	2025 January	History of the Shipley Residence (127 Social House)	Featured Article
92	2025 Spring	1880’s West Fallbrook	Historian
93	2025 May	Honey, Fallbrook’s Earliest Crop	Featured Article
94	2025 Summer	The Emily Johnson Duffy Ranch School for Girls	Historian
95	2025 July	Henry Rodriquez, Luiseño Elder	Featured Article
96	2025 August	A Sketch of Bonsall History	Featured Article
97	2025 Fall	Historic Dairies of Fallbrook	Historian
98	2025 October	Frank Capra	Featured Article
99	2025 October	Fallbrook Woman’s Club	Vintage Organization of the Year
100	2025 WInter	Harrison’s Pharmacy	Historian
101	2025 December	The Dutch Bakiery	Featured Article
102	2026 Spring	Salvaging the Santa Fe Train Remains	Historian
103	2026 April	Reed Family California Pioneers	Featured Article
104	2026 Summer	The History of Live Oak Park	Historian
105	2026 Fall	Fallbrook Banks	Historian
106	2026 September	Traveling Ring at Reche Schoolhouse	Featured Article