Originally called Musalacon High School, Johanna Echols-Hansen Continuation High School – JEH for short – is located at 322 N. Washington St. It was renamed about 1981 in memory of the beloved former teacher. Born Dec. 14, 1942 in Los Angeles, Johanna graduated...
by Kay Wells In the late 1800s, Mr. A. N. Ahrens, Cloverdale citizen and cigar smoker, was mourning the unavailability of fine cigars. So, he decided to “grow his own”. Sending away for tobacco seedlings, he nurtured them in his greenhouse (seeds require warm...
Mary Jo Winter, the author of the history article about the cemetery monument that appeared in last month’s issue of Cloverdale Connect, received a phone call from 102-year old Harold Peters who lives here in Cloverdale. It seems his aunt from Iowa married Farley...
This is one of the ladies who drowned – Susie Elizabeth Crow Abshire. The little boy is her son, Francis Presley Abshire. Picture was taken in either 1892 or 1893. By Mary Jo Winter Cemeteries are history repositories, filled with real life stories, many of which have...
