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James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 - September 11, 1952), was the founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, known today as the world's largest privately owned farm. Primary crops include Pima cotton , [ 1 ] alfalfa hay, tomatoes , onions , and wheat , all cultivated on some 135,000 acres (550 km 2 ) mostly in Kings County, California .
The James G. Boswell Foundation is the charitable foundation established in 1947 by James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 – 1952), founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, a successful farm and agricultural supplies enterprise established in Corcoran, California in 1921. The Foundation supports agricultural, general education, health concerns, pre ...
Camp Lamont ran two sub camps: Boswell Ranch, which opened in December 1944 in the city Corcoran, California, in Kings County with 499 prisoners and closed October 5, 1945, and Camp Lakeland, also called the Corcoran Prisoner of War Branch Camp in Corcoran, with 631 prisoners, which opened May 14, 1945, and closed October 5, 1945. Camp Lamont ...
In 2003, author Mark Arax published a book titled The King of California which is about how J.G. Boswell turned the lakebed into farms and revolutionized the farming industry. [ 56 ] In 2015, a documentary titled Tulare, the Phantom Lake: Drought was released and in 2022, a second part to the same documentary was released.
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Kings County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.The population was 152,486 at the 2020 census. [5] The county seat is Hanford. [6]Kings County comprises the Hanford-Corcoran, CA metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA combined statistical area.
Despite portions being sold off since the 1980s, the Boswell family farm remains the largest privately owned farm in the world, at 150,000 acres (61,000 ha). [78] The Wright Act of 1887 allowed farmers to organize into irrigation districts, enabling them to pool their resources and greatly extend the reach of canal systems.