SOLEDAD — The Soledad Historical Society has opened its new display, and locals are taking the opportunity to visit it during the Farmers Market each week.
The display is titled “Native Americans, Missionaries, Rancheros and Farmers” and features history of the valley and the people who live in it and worked the land.
“The current display is designed to meet the fourth-grade History Social Studies Curriculum Standards,” said Graig Stephens of the Soledad Historical Society. “It features displays on the local Native Americans, the European explorers who impacted our area, the missions and the rancho periods.”
All fourth-grade classes in the Soledad Unified School District (SUSD) will go through the museum. Over 350 students will visit the museum and see actual artifacts found in and around the City of Soledad.
This is the second display at the museum designed to meet California History Social Studies Curriculum Standards as part of the Society’s Educational Outreach program with the SUSD. The last one was the “75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor.”
“That display was viewed by 11th-grade students from the high school,” Stephens said.
In addition, the Society held the only Pearl Harbor WWII remembrance in Monterey County.
The Soledad Historic Society has taken their “The Schools of Yesteryear” display to first-grade classes in Soledad and to the Gonzales Unified School District. They are busy developing a display for second-grade students that will be presented for the first time at Soledad’s Rose Ferrero School later this school year.
For special group tours, call Graig Stephens at 831-678-3504 to arrange times.
The SHS takes its work very serious, cataloging and preserving artifacts and pictures from South County’s past.
To donate pictures, artifacts or to make a monetary donation, contact a board member or go to the museum, located in the International Harvester Building at 137 Soledad St. in Soledad.
