Claremont Heritage -- Celebrating and Preserving our community heritage through research and education.
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Attend a Heritage Event. Learn about our local history. Appreciate our varied community architecture. Get to know some new people. Explore Claremont's hidden gems. Sign up for one of our many Heritage Events.

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Take a Self-Guided Tour. Can't wait for our next event? You can explore Claremont right now with the help of our Self-Guided Tour Guide of Historic Claremont Sites. This handy booklet is available in the Gift Gallery, but you can find the information right here on our website.

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Color Claremont with Your Kids. Our coloring book, Color Claremont is available in the Gift Gallery, but you can download and print out a few pages for your kids to color right now!

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Become a Member. Preserving our local heritage requires the ongoing support of people like you. Won't you join us by becoming a member? Click here to download a membership form.

Claremont's Claremont's "brand new" high school built in 1911.Enlarge this Image

Heritage News

Annual Meeting Claremont Heritage will hold its Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 11, 2009 from 2:00 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Garner House in Memorial Park, located at 840 N Indian Hill Boulevard. The program is entitled "The Inconvenience of History: Reflections on Historic Preservation," and will be presented by Larry E. Burgess, a prominent regional Historian, Author and Director of the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands. His lecture will focus on past and recent regional preservation projects and some lamentable failures.

Mr. Burgess gives 50 to 60 lectures each year on the history of Southern California and the West. He has written and collaborated on many books including The Smileys: A Biography (1969, 1993), The Hunt for Willie Boy (1994) and Images of America: Redlands (2004). He received his PhD. from the Claremont Graduate University. In the summer and fall of 2000, Burgess was Redlands' interim city manager.

The meeting will conclude with the election of three new Claremont Heritage Board members, recognition of outgoing Board members including retiring President Judy Wright and an annual report.

Refreshments will be served. Please join us.

Contact Ginger Elliott, 909-621-0848 or email: heritage.91711@verizon.net

Russian Village Below is another article on one of Claremont's neighborhoods.
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