Name/Title
Booklet about the Hackett Family, ca. 2002Entry/Object ID
2024.15.1Description
Acc. No. 24.15.1
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda, Hackett family
Date or Period: 2002
Object: booklet
Description: booklet, 12 pages inside cover, printed black print on tan paper. Front image showing people in front of two wooden houses, with a cow and chickens. Title: 'The Hackett Family in Allensworth'. Subtitle: 'Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park'. Written by Betty Rivers, associate state archeologist. Has handwritten dedication addressed to Mr. George Gunn, intending the booklet for the Historical Museum archives.
Size: L 8 1/2” x W 5 1/2”
History of Object: A booklet describing the contributions by the Hackett family who came from Alameda, to the town of Allensworth, California, the first African-American built town in California. The booklet describes how James Hackett, born in South Carolina in 1856, before emancipation in 1862, married Alice Hickerson and how the family moved first to San Francisco, and then to Alameda. After 1890, the family lived in a house at 1608 Union Street (no longer existing), the first house in Alameda built for an African-American family. James ran a drayage business in Alameda. While the older children stayed in Alameda, James and Alice and the youngest children moved to Allentown between 1912 and 1917. Two of the children moved back to Alameda to attend high school. James died in Allensworth in 1924; Alice Hackett went to Alameda for medical care and died there in 1932. The house in Allensworth burned down 9 days later. Daughter Sadie returned to Alameda; daughter Grace remained in Allensworth. The Hackett's house has been restored as part of the Historic Park.
Booklet discovered among objects waiting for processing.
Acquired from: Mrs. Alice C. Royal (Calbert), granddaughter to Mr. & Mrs. Hackett
Donation date: 10/18/2002; Catalog Date: 2/22/2024
