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Southern Pacific Railroad, The Loop, Tehachapi Pass. Photo by Carleton E. Watkins circa 1876. Courtesy of California State Library

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About The Tomahawk Project

About The Tomahawk Project

The Tomahawk was not the first newspaper published in Tehachapi, California, but the weekly began publishing around 1899, and publication continued through June 6, 1919, when new owners changed the name to The Tehachapi News. Today's Tehachapi News continues this...

Organizing Tehachapi History

Organizing Tehachapi History

This website was born of an idea to try to organize the history of Tehachapi, California, to make more information easily accessible to more people. That's a big job. I started gathering information and then decided it would be easier to create the infrastructure...

Welcome to TehachapiHistory.com

Welcome to TehachapiHistory.com

A few very special people have done an excellent job of researching and recording the history of Tehachapi, California, and I am privileged to have known a number of them. (Stay tuned!) Some of this research has found its way into books and articles (in print and...