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3 unusual facts about Horace Carpentier


Horace Carpentier

The telegram was addressed to President Abraham Lincoln: "I announce to you that the telegraph to California has this day been completed. May it be a bond of perpetuity between the states of the Atlantic and those of the Pacific".

Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura

In 1874, the Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura not yet owned by settlers, was sold to Rudolph Steinbach & Horace W. Carpentier.

West Oakland, Oakland, California

In the 1850s, a group of men who had been leasing the land from his son Vicente, Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew J. Moon, began illegally selling small farm plots west of what is now Market Street.



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