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Barnes, Leonidas |
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L. Barnes General Store - c. 1890
Market Day at the General Store. Leonidas Barnes, a confederate veteran, set up a general store at the corner of Lemon and Myrtle Avenues in 1886. The first mercantile building erected in Monrovia 1886. The ground floor contained Leonidas Barnes' General Store. The upper floor, "Barnes' Hall", served as a general meeting place where the early churches, the town council, the school and other groups met. The building still stands at the northeast ...
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L. Barnes store -- advertisement - c. 1889
L. Barnes -- advertisement from the Monrovia Messenger 1889?
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North Myrtle Ave. - Knox House - c. 1913
Knox house at left; L. Barnes house (2 story) further north
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Route of the Horse-car line in 1901 - 1901
Article about the change of the horse-car line by its owner Leonidas Barnes, to an electric railway on Santa Fe Railway route.
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We Lose the Hoss Car
The real story about the disappearance of the "Hoss Car" (the mule-drawn trolley owned by Leonidas Barnes, that went up Myrtle Avenue), as told by Charles Anson.
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When Maud Moved Monrovians - 1929
Transcript of article on Monrovia's mule-drawn trolley. Dated May 10, 1929. Transcribed by Myron Hotchkiss
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