Valley Truck Farms Scrapbook
Item
Title
Valley Truck Farms Scrapbook
Identifier
2023.001.053
Type
Image
Description
The Valley Truck Farms Scrapbook was edited by Alice Eby Hall and Roger Hall, completing a project begun by Valley resident Herbert Sims, to document the rich history of the Valley Truck Farms community. The Halls, who were from a rural white community went to school with Sims and many other Valley residents in the late 40s and early 50s at Sturgis Junior High School where they became friends. Alice and Roger Hall began helping Herbert Sims on the Valley Truck Farms book in the early 2000s after Roger Hall retired. There are chapters, photos and maps documenting the early history of the community, the causes of its recent transformation, the history of water, community churches, and schools in the Valley, including selected pictures of Valley residents who went to Mill school, Sturgis junior high school and San bernardino high school in the 1950s. The last half of the scrapbook features stories written by families of the Valley Truck Farms as well as compiled lists of families that lived on different streets in the Valley including the following families Saville, Bland, Jackson, the McDowell and McDaniels, Polee, McMurray, Green, Overstreet, Lockert, Harris, Harper, Curran, and Davis. The book juxtaposes images of the past and present to show the displacement of the rural community and traces some of the causes of the transformations that have hit the Valley over the last 50 years.
Subject
African American history
Businesses
Community life in San Bernardino
Community recreation
Development
Education
Farming
Family
Mill School
Norton Air Force Base
Religion
St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church
Logistics Industry
Spatial Coverage
Valley Truck Farms, San Bernardino (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
1925-2022
Creator
Alice Eby Hall
Date
2022
Contributor
Alice Eby Hall
Format
.pdf
Language
English
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