The Drum Barracks in Wilmington was the first U.S. military base to be built in Los Angeles County. It takes its name not from the percussion instrument, but from Lt. Col. Richard Coulter Drum, the Adjutant General then based in San Francisco who commanded California’s militia forces. Drum played a key role in the creationContinue reading “Civil War tensions led to the creation of Wilmington’s Drum Barracks”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
