Flu Fighters: The 1918 Flu Pandemic in Oxnard (via Museum of Ventura County)

By Museum Volunteer Andy Ludlum

In March 1918, an Army cook named Albert Gitchell was hospitalized with a 104-degree fever at Camp Funston…

Source: Museum of Ventura County

Ventura County’s $75,000 Pleasure Mansion (via Museum of Ventura County)

By Museum Volunteer Andy Ludlum

On New Year’s Day 1919 Phillip Van der Meide, the manager of Ventura’s bath house said that after…

Source: Museum of Ventura County

African American Voices from Ventura County’s Past (via Museum of Ventura County)

Written by Andy Ludlum, Library Volunteer

Recorded interviews in the Research Library’s oral history collection give us a glimpse into the lives of two remarkable women who were members of the earliest African American families to settle in Ventura.

Source: Museum of Ventura County