{"id":303,"date":"2012-04-11T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:11:02","slug":"1940-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"1940 Census and La Colonia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oxnard’s 1940 Census Map<\/p><\/div>\n

The last couple of weeks, I have been collecting data from the 1940 Census on Oxnard, especially La Colonia<\/em> <\/strong>and Meta<\/em><\/strong> neighborhoods. I found the information and data at the official 1940 Census’ website<\/a> at the National Archives and it is free to the public.<\/p>\n

c\/s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last couple of weeks, I have been collecting data from the 1940 Census on Oxnard, especially La Colonia and Meta neighborhoods. I found the information and data at the official 1940 Census’ website at the National Archives and it is free to the public. c\/s<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ibJA-4T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1618,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=1618","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":0},"title":"Remembering Colonia Village, Part I","date":"July 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Part I - Series On The History Of Colonia Village: In 2014, Oxnard Housing Authority began the first phase\u00a0of demolishing Colonia Village, a public-housing tract\u00a0in La Colonia. 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