Overview

The book publisher Albert Little Bancroft (1841-1914) developed Aloha Farm on what grew from 183 to about 600 acres outside of Concord, CA. This was one of the earliest and largest fruit orchards developed in Contra Costa County during the nineteenth century, containing 50,000 peach, pear, plum, apricot and almond trees. Beginning in 1885, Albert's wife Fannie A. Watts Bancroft (1842-1922) established and managed the agricultural estate turning it into one of the most productive in the county. (See Genealogy Trails.com, "The History of Contra Costa County California," F.J. Hulaniski, ed., [Berkeley, CA: Elm Publishing Company, 1917].) After her death, the farm was sold to a nephew, Phillip Bancroft, in 1926.

Building History

A two-story, concrete ranch house was erected on the property during the summer of 1890. (See Albert Little Bancroft and Henry R. Wagner, "Albert Little Bancroft: His Card String of Events, and Other Documents (Continued)," California Historical Society Quarterly, 12/1950, vol. 29, no. 4, 12/1950, p. 362.)

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