A salute to Black pioneers
Rebecca Marshall FarnbachSpecial to Valley NewsThe histories of four Black pioneers from the southwest Riverside County and North San Diego County should not be forgotten: James Hamilton, Albert and Margaret Robinson and Nate Harrison. They settled in Anza, Julian and on Palomar Mountain.James Hamilton was born in Ohio. In the late 1840s, he and a brother came west with a Mormon group heading to Utah Territory. Hamilton arrived in San Bernardino in 1850 before moving to San Diego where he operated a hotel for a while. He went to Rancho San Felipe, near Warner Springs, where he married a Native woman. He was evicted from land he had settled near