A salute to Black pioneers

Rebecca Marshall Farnbach Special to Valley News The 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