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Visalia (/ v aɪ ˈ s eɪ l j ə, v ɪ-/ vy-SAYL-yə, vih-) [9] [10] is a city in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California. The population was 141,384 as per the 2020 census. Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San Joaquin Valley, the 40th most populous in California, and 192nd in the United States. [11]
It was originally named the Tulare County Record and Fresno Examiner, and was founded June 25, 1859 by I. W. Carpenter, a printer. [1]In 1948, the Times-Delta was purchased by Speidel Newspapers. [2]
State Correctional Institution – Greensburg was a Medium-Security prison, holding all male inmates. The facility is located directly off of U.S. Route 119 in Hempfield Township, about five miles South of downtown Greensburg. The institution is located about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, in the western part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
When the Catholic Church created the Diocese of Greensburg in 1951, the first bishop, Rev. Hugh Lamb, lived at St. Emma's while making the initial arrangements. St. Emma also served as the diocesan chancery for the first year. The sisters built a retreat house in 1954. The sisters built the first monastery wing in 1960 and the second wing in 1963.
The Retreat State Hospital was declining in patients and was closed in 1981 and planning for SCI-Retreat's conversion began. Similar conversions were made at Cresson Center (Now SCI-Cresson) and the former Waynesburg Youth Development Center (Was SCI-Waynesburg from 1985-2004). Retreat was the first correctional facility built since 1960.
Visalia County court house, Tulare County, California, ca.1912 Photograph of Visalia County court house, Tulare County, California, ca.1912. The three-story stone building is topped with a tower with a dome, on top of which a statue is perched. Two other statues of figures stand on the peak of two eaves of the roof.
Its construction was completed in 1876, only five years after the establishment of Moore County. [2] The construction team was Bobo and Stegall. [2] Between 1872 and 1880, the Grand Central Hotel owned by Dr. E Y. Salmon, another Confederate veteran who served as the county clerk/master, was the de facto county courthouse. [3]