🎬 Movie Night: The Lost Battalion
📅 Date: Monday, May 12
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Clifton C. Miller Community Center | 300 Centennial Way, Tustin, CA 92780
Join us for a special screening of The Lost Battalion (2001 - PG), telling the incredible true story of WWI hero and Tustin native Nelson Miles Holderman. Popcorn provided!
🔗Biography for Nelson Miles Holderman
🔗Biography for Elizabeth Buckley (nee VanBenschoten)
🔗Biography for Lori Turner
🚶♂️ Guided Residential Walking Tour in Old Town
📅 Date: Tuesday, May 13
🕓 Time: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Begins at Tustin Area Senior Center | 200 S. C Street, Tustin, CA 92780
🔗Walking Tour Map
Take a guided stroll through historic Old Town Tustin, as we explore neighborhoods and hear stories of Tustin residents with ties to military history. The tour will be hosted by the City of Tustin in collaboration with the Tustin Area Historical Society, and Tustin Preservation Conservancy.
🔗 Watch "A Chat with Phil Cox"
🔗 Tribute to Phil Cox by the Tustin Area Historical Society
🔗 Learn about Phil Cox's love for history, and his mini-museum
🔗 Learn more about the Tustin Area Historical Society
🔗 Learn more about the Tustin Preservation Conservancy
📚 Learn About Tustin’s History
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 14
🕙 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Tustin Library | 345 E. Main Street, Tustin, CA 92780
Stop by our Historic Preservation table outside the Tustin Library to see exhibits and artifacts highlighting Tustin’s military legacy, explore tributes to local heroes, and browse recommended reading.
🌇 Sunset in Old Town
📅 Date: Thursday, May 15
🕔 Time: 5:00 – 8:30 p.m.
📍 Location: El Camino Real (between Main & Third Streets) | Old Town Tustin
Come meet your Historic Preservation Team at the Sunset Market - we will be sharing a booth with the Tustin Museum! Say hello, pick up some giveaways, and enjoy this fabulous and popular City event, with live entertainment and local vendors.
🔗 View the Tustin Fallen Heroes Street Name Map
🔗 Visit the Veterans Memorial Webpage
🔗 Take a Virtual Tour of the Tustin Museum!
🔗 More info on Sunset Market
🪦 Tustin Icons Cemetery Tour
📅 Date: Friday, May 16
🕞 Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Fairhaven Memorial Park |1702 E. Fairhaven Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92705
🔗 Cemetery Parking Map and Meeting Location
Join us for a guided cemetery tour hosted by the Tustin Area Historical Society, of the final resting places of iconic Tustin residents. We will focus on the lives and stories of Tustin residents with military roots. This was our most popular event last year! You won't want to miss out!
🔗 Learn more about the Nisson story
🔗 "A Walk to Remember" Mini-biographies of pioneers buried in the Santa Ana Cemetery
🎉 Old Town Happenings
📅 Date: Saturday May 17
🕠 Time: 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Stevens Square, Old Town Tustin
🔗 Living History Garden Party
🔗Tustin Street Fair & Chili Cookoff
🔗Sunset Market
Celebrate the weekend in Old Town! Don’t miss the Living History Garden Party presented by the Tustin Area Historical Society featuring costumed actors, community stories, and historic charm.
📖 Continuing Tustin’s Legacy
📅 Date: Monday, May 19
🕘 Time: All Day (Online Feature)
📍 Location: www.tustinca.org/historicpreservation
What a week! From guided tours and movie night to garden parties and tributes to local heroes, Historic Preservation Week 2025 was filled with stories worth remembering.
⭐ Thank you for being part of this celebration of service, legacy, and local history.
⭐ Missed a day? No worries! We’ll keep this page active with all of the fun facts, event photos, and featured stories online.
⭐ Stay curious! Tustin’s history lives on year-round, and so do the ways to connect with it.
