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Frank Pixley advertised the town named after him in his biweekly journal The Argonaut. [3] In the early 1890s, Chris Evans and John Sontag robbed a Southern Pacific Railroad train at Pixley. [4] In 1933, Pixley was one of the towns in California involved in the San Joaquin cotton strike, a labor action by agricultural workers seeking higher ...
ImagineU Children's Museum: Visalia: Tulare: Children's: website: International Agri-Center: Tulare: Tulare: Agriculture: website, dairy farming, agriculture, includes the Antique Farm Equipment Museum with restored antique tractors, farm implements and equipment, steam engines, history of farming and ranching Kearney Mansion Museum: Fresno ...
Pixley is the closest town to Hooterville, about 50 miles away. Pixley comically boasts several things that no small farm town in America would have. Among them are a very tiny international airport (Pixley International Airport, the hub of Trans Pixley Airlines) and a television station, WPIXL, Channel 5. Other towns in the area include ...
According to the nonprofit Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, Pixley's 26 dairies house approximately 140,000 cows. Nine have digesters operating on farms with thousands of animals ...
Agriculture is the primary industry in most of the Central Valley. A notable exception is the Sacramento area, which hosts a large and stable workforce of government employees. Despite state hiring cutbacks and the closure of several military bases, Sacramento's economy has continued to expand and diversify and now more closely resembles that ...
Museums with collections and/or demonstrations that are mostly related to agriculture and farming, including farms, dairying, tools, agricultural machinery, grist mills, and rural life. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Just north of Allensworth is the 6,389-acre (2,586 ha) Pixley National Wildlife Refuge, operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Adjacent to the town is the Allensworth Ecological Reserve. The endangered San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) can be found in this area. [citation needed]
Pixley Connect is a 3-year program bringing telecommunication access, education, and training to Pixley, a rural, predominantly Spanish-speaking community with below average income levels, education levels, and employment rates. [34] [35] The program aims to promote Pixley's economic development and improve the residents' quality of life. [35]