Monterey County Local News: History

Peter Coniglio described himself as a “Monterey guy,” and he was, with deep roots that run back to his Italian immigrant grandfather.

A spring tour of the Bitterwater and Lonoak area is being planned for April 13 by the San Antonio Valley Historical Association (SAVHA) of Southern Monterey County.

The First Theatre in downtown Monterey hosted California’s first-ever paid theatrical production in 1848, but wasn’t regularly used for that purpose until 1937.

In 1945 a widow named Della Walker, known formally as Mrs. Clinton Walker, wrote a short letter to Frank Lloyd Wright, in hopes the famed architect would design a home for her in Carmel. “I own a rocky point of…

We mark transitions in time—new months, years, decades. So often, in our fast-paced world, the obvious thing to do is to look forward.

Pacific Grove officially said goodbye to the Feast of Lanterns, the town’s troubled faux Chinese pageant. Now the Monterey Bay Chinese Association wants to build a traditional pavilion and a moon wall to honor the history of Chinese Americans.

It seemed like a good idea in 1972 when the California Legislature passed the Mills Act, a voluntary program designed to save crumbling historic buildings from ruin by allowing cities and counties to give tax breaks to property owners.