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1856 – Fresno County formed in 1856 with Millerton, a settlement along the San Joaquin River, as the county seat. [1]1865 – William Helm brings his wife and his sheep to the valley floor area south of Millerton.
Fresno County (/ ˈ f r ɛ z n oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,008,654. [3] [5] The county seat is Fresno, [6] the fifth-most populous city in California.
Location of Fresno County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fresno County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fresno County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The old Fresno County Courthouse, built in 1875 and demolished in 1966. The first European to enter the San Joaquin Valley was Pedro Fages in 1772. [14] The county of Fresno was formed in 1856 after the California Gold Rush and was named for the abundant ash trees (Spanish: fresno) lining the San Joaquin River.
Ranchos of Fresno County, California (3 P) Pages in category "History of Fresno County, California" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Historical records tell us that the Central California Colony was established south of Fresno in 1875 by Bernard Marks, a Jewish pioneer, which set the model for a system of development that was ...
Fresno County had approximately 129,000 residents in 1922, and Fresno was believed to be growing at a rate of 5,000 people a year. The newspaper magnate McClatchy family thought the city seemed ...
Similar to the other Chinatowns in California such as in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland, Fresno's Chinatown was regarded as a center of gambling, prostitution, and opium by the public and bore the brunt of many efforts to stifle vice in Fresno. In December 1885, the City of Fresno enacted an ordinance banning the use of Opium.