Fresno

These Valley roadways mark important "grid correction" lines that date back to a system devised by Thomas Jefferson.

A planned mega-development along the river in the late 1980s spurred three women to start the San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust.

The Central Valley's love affair with the automobile has helped influence American culture.

Bob Wills revolutionized country music in the 1930s by mixing jazz and string band influences. Like many of his fans in Oklahoma and Texas, he moved to Central California in the 1940s.

Spicy but flavorful, the Fresno chile was first developed in Clovis.

Fresno properties served as the prototypes for two pioneering Las Vegas resorts, and two of Sin City's most influential tycoons were born and raised in Fresno.

Exactly who the auditorium should memorialize was controversial when the building was planned in the 1930s.

There are a lot of different places that claim to mark California's north/south divide.

Eastwood devised the hydroelectric system of dams and powerhouses that gave us Huntington and Shaver Lakes, and helped transform Southern California.

The river we know today as the San Joaquin has had many names over the years.