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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 ...
Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. It was established in 1890 as a freight stop for the San Joaquin Valley Railroad by a group of Fresno businessmen and Michigan railroad speculator Marcus Pollasky. The railroad bought the land from two farmers and named the station after one of them, Clovis Cole.
Students are shown in Fresno State's Henry Madden Library in 2009. Madden was found to have held "deeply antisemitic views and Nazi sympathies," prompting the school to rename the building.
The Fresno State Rugby Football Club was founded in 1971, although rugby was played at the old Fresno State College as early as 1934. [17] In August 2022, Fresno State moved its rugby team from the Division 1 Pacific Western Conference to the California Conference as a Division IAA team. [18]
The FoodsCo Store #339 at First Street and Shields Avenue in central Fresno was closed by an inspector with the health department’s Environmental Health Division on June 4 after a fire in the ...