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1872 – Fresno station founded by the Central Pacific Railroad Company [4] 1874 – County seat of Fresno County moves from Millerton to Fresno due to population growth. [5] 1875 Fresno County Courthouse built. Central California Colony established south of Fresno, creating a successful model for attracting settlers. [4] [6]
In the northeastern part of Fresno, Woodward Park was founded by the late Ralph Woodward, a long-time Fresno resident. He bequeathed a major portion of his estate in 1968 to provide a regional park and bird sanctuary in Northeast Fresno. The park lies on the southern bank of the San Joaquin River between Highway 41 and Friant Road.
California State University, Fresno was founded as the Fresno State Normal School in 1911 with Charles Lourie McLane as its first president. [19] It was one of about 180 "normal schools" founded by state governments to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools. Some closed but most steadily expanded their role and became ...
Fresno County, California – Racial and ethnic composition ... San Joaquin College of Law is a private, nonprofit law school founded in 1969 and located in the City ...
The city of Clovis began as a freight stop along the San Joaquin Valley Railroad.Organized on January 15, 1890, by Fresno businessmen Thomas E. Hughes, Fulton Berry, Gilbert R. Osmun, H.D. Colson, John D. Gray, and William M. Williams, in partnership with Michigan railroad speculator Marcus Pollasky, the SJVRR began construction in Fresno on July 4, 1891, and reached the farmlands of Clovis M ...
Benito Arenas, who founded the legendary Fresno restaurant La Elegante nearly four decades ago, died Sunday at age 88. Arenas had been part of Fresno’s food scene since the 1980s, when he and ...
The Arco AM/PM mini market at Brawley Avenue at Highway 180 in southwest Fresno, and the Keck Park Community Center on Monroe Street in Coalinga were found to have issues with their water supplies.
In southeast Fresno, at Indian market and restaurant Apni Mandi in a shopping center at Belmont and Peach avenues, an inspector found evidence of a vermin infestation during a March 7 visit.