Walnut’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Walnut. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area are the traditional lands of the Tongva people. Spanish missionaries who arrived in the 18th century called the indigenes Gabrieleño, because the area where they lived was controlled by the San Gabriel Mission. The Walnut area was part of the network of outlying ranches used for the grazing of cattle and sheep by the Mission.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Walnut’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Walnut’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewEric Ching: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Walnut
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Walnut, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Eric Ching and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.