Title: From crackers to coal oil
Description: When a student pulled out his gun and laid it on his desk, the tiny one-room school found itself needing a new teacher. Enter Virginia Newcomb, who married Loron Rowley two years later. Together they helped develop the town, leaving behind a detailed account of pioneer life in a small village.
Subjects: California history, History, pioneer families
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.), Sunland (Los Angeles, Calif.), Sunland CA
People: Loron Rowley, Loron Thomas Rowley (1860-1942), Rowley family
Time periods: 1891-1918