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Collection of photographs.


The museum is a great source of historical information about Hemet and the San Jacinto Valley. We have a large collection of books and historical photos. We have access to most issues of The Hemet News, a local newspaper that was published from 1894 to 1999.

If you have a research question, contact ChuckCoker@TheHemetMuseum.org. Please fill in the subject line of your email with the general topic and in the body of the email, describe your question in detail and let us know what you know so far.

We don’t charge for the labor involved in most research—donations to support the museum are accepted, of course—but there may be a nominal charge for materials, for example, if you want paper copies of documents or printed photos. In any case, if there will be any charges, we’ll let you know before we start.

Answers to Interesting Questions from Our Guests

Our docents can usually answer our guests’ questions. Occasionally, we get interesting questions that we don’t have an immediate answer for. When we research the questions and find answers, we’ll post some of them here.

Question: In the railroad section of the museum, there is a display of nails with numbers on them. I have some of nails like those. What are the nails used for?

Question: The museum is built with actual 2×4 lumber. When did 1½×3½ lumber become the standard?
Related question: What is the difference between hardwoods and softwoods?
Related question: Do they have 2×4s outside the US, in metric countries like the UK?

Here are some of the questions we’re working on.

Do you have any information about a plane from the Soviet Union that landed near Hemet in 1937?

How does a cream separator work?

What can you tell me about a World War I-era airfield in Hemet?