Source and locator: Los Angeles Star, September 25, 1869; Grand Festival advertisement, reproduced by Homestead Museum.
Inspection and evidence boundary: Image inspected. Names Mrs. Biddy Mason among ticket contacts for a festival by the ladies of the AME Church to raise building funds; advertised tickets including supper $2. VERIFIED applies to the advertisement and named role. It does not establish attendance, money collected, sole founding, incorporation or land donation. Museum surrounding prose/caption has an unrelated 1865 date; the clipping itself explicitly advertises September 30, 1869.