Fresno

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

Highway 99 passes through most of the Central Valley's major cities, while Interstate 5 bypasses them. Why is that?

In the 1890's sugar magnate Claus Spreckels funded a railroad from Stockton to Bakersfield that broke the Southern Pacific's transportation monopoly in the region.

Victor Gruen invented the suburban American shopping mall. He tried to reinvent Fresno.

Friant Dam was the fourth-largest masonry dam in the world when it was constructed between 1939-1944.

A century ago, Fresno residents could ride an electric trolley all the way to present-day Scout Island, to cool off at "Fresno Beach" on the San Joaquin River.

Fort Washington's history goes back over 175 years to Alta California General José Castro. The fort was likely the first building in what is today Fresno County.

Minna Eshleman ran the Minnewawa Ranch and was a pioneer in her scientific approach to agriculture.

This neighborhood in Southeast Fresno was home many of Fresno's agricultural pioneers.

Today's Fresno Yosemite International Airport began as Army Air Corps training base during World War II.