local history

Several Central Valley Carnegie library buildings still remain, in cities like Clovis, Hanford, Exeter and Orosi.

Back when Railroad Avenue was U.S. Route 99, downtown merchants funded the archway to help draw motorists to their businesses.

Located at the top of Tollhouse grade, a variety of Pine Ridge-area businesses have served centuries of weary travelers.

In December of 1867, a portion of Dennison Mountain slid into the Kaweah River, creating a 400-foot natural dam that eventually gave way, flooding Visalia.

While cities like Fresno and Bakersfield didn't exist in 1862, the local impact of that year's historic flooding was still massive.

Today's Kings County used to be a part of Tulare County, until it broke away in 1893.

King held a rally in Fresno June 1, 1964 in support of housing equality laws in California.

The civil rights leader led a march ahead of a speech at Bakersfield's Harvey Auditorium in 1960

Andrew Firebaugh founded the town as a ferry crossing in 1854, before building a toll road over Pacheco Pass and later founding Academy northeast of Clovis.

An early Fresno resident reported that train conductors would alert riders to "get their guns ready" as trains approached the stop of Fresno Station.