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Events, Exhibits, Upcoming Events
September 12, 2025

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Exploring Water’s Environmental And Cultural Impact Now Open

Exciting Exhibit Amplifies Rancho Los Cerritos’ Commitment to Water Conservation From above, Earth appears as a water planet with more than 71 percent of its…
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Exhibits
May 1, 2021

A Missing Part of History

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI): How Chinese women were erased from history. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, we want to…
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history
March 8, 2021

Rafaela Cota de Temple: Hija del Pais (Daughter of the Land) 

In honor of International Women’s Day, we are highlighting the life story of Rafaela Cota de Temple. She was the wife of John Temple, who…
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On display from October through Early December 2019 is the latest special exhibit in the library case in commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the adobe's construction (built in 1844) and specifically the 1930s Bixby remodel. With the exhibit is Brice Burtness, RLC’s Fall 2019 Creative Long Beach intern (funded by the Arts Council for Long Beach), who researched and installed this exhibit.
Exhibits, history, Long Beach, rlc175
October 31, 2019

Library Exhibit: The Bixbys’ 1930s Remodel

This October, Rancho Los Cerritos installed the third in a series of special exhibits in the library display case that commemorates the demisemiseptcentennial. (175th anniversary) of the…
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Cutting the RLC 175th birthday cake are (L-R): Rick Alsagoff (board member), Barbara Blackwell (board member), Susan Wise (board chair), Craig Carter (board member), Councilmember Al Austin, Jean Bixby Smith (board member), and Alison Bruesehoff (Executive Director). (Photo taken by Howard Freshman) A formal proclamation was also presented to RLC during this event by Councilmember Austin.
Events, history, Long Beach, rlc175
October 2, 2019

Happy 175th Birthday to RLC’s Historic Adobe!

We celebrated the 175th Anniversary of our historic adobe last Saturday, September 28th, and we even had a proper birthday cake to commemorate the occasion!…
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Read about some fun facts from the year 1844, including more about Rancho Los Cerritos' 175th Anniversary in 2019.
history, rlc175
July 15, 2019

Fun Facts about 1844

In commemoration of Rancho Los Cerritos’ 175th Anniversary year of when the adobe was built in 1844, the blog will feature a series of stories as submitted…
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Rancho Los Cerritos' volunteer curatorial intern Nevada Evers installs the latest special exhibit in the library case in commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the adobe's construction (built in 1844) and specifically the sheep ranching years (1866-1890).
Exhibits, history, rlc175
July 3, 2019

Library Exhibit: The Bixby Sheep Ranching Period 1866-1890

In late June, Rancho Los Cerritos installed the second in a series of special exhibits in the library display case that commemorates the demisemiseptcentennial. (175th…
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Create your own tussie-mussie at the Victorian Language of Flowers Lecture and Workshop on Saturday May 18th at Rancho Los Cerritos.
Events, Gardens, history, Upcoming Events
May 6, 2019

“Say It with Flowers” Victorian Style on May 18th

“Say it with Flowers” has been a tag line used by florists since the early 1900s. But flowers have been used to express sentiments for centuries…
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