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Website. www.stocktongov.com. Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. [18] It is the most populous city in the county, the 11th-most populous city in California and the 60th-most populous city in the United States. Stockton's population in 2020 was 320,804.
Designated. March 10, 1995. Reference no. 1016 [1] Stockton State Hospital or the Stockton Developmental Center was California 's first psychiatric hospital. The hospital opened in 1851 in Stockton, California, United States, and closed 1995–1996. The site is currently used as the Stockton campus of California State University, Stanislaus.
Website. www.pacific.edu. University of the Pacific (Pacific or UOP) is a private university originally founded as a Methodist -affiliated university with its main campus in Stockton, California, and graduate campuses in San Francisco and Sacramento. It was the first university in the state of California, [4] the first independent coeducational ...
Democratic. Children. 7. Occupation. Architect, politician. Samuel Purdy (1819 – February 17, 1882) [1][2] was an American politician. As a Democrat, he served as the third Lieutenant Governor of California from 1852 to 1856. [3] He also was the first mayor of Stockton, California, where he was in office from 1850 to 1851. [4]
John Sutter. John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, [1][2] was a Swiss immigrant who became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital.
Rancho Campo de los Franceses. Coordinates: 38.020°N 121.230°W. Carlos Maria Weber founded Stockton when he acquired and settled Rancho Campo de los Franceses. Rancho Campo de los Franceses was a 48,747-acre (197.27 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Joaquin County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to ...
The local Jewish community of Stockton Temple Israel of Stockton built a cemetery on the land. Temple Israel Cemetery is the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in California, also west of the Rocky Mountains. [1] [2] [3] In 1851, the Stockton Jewish community founded, Ryhim Ahoovim, a Jewish Bevevolent Society. Ryhim Ahoovim held a High ...
The site of the former Weber Point Home is a California Historical Landmark No. 165, listed on January 11, 1935. The Weber Point Home was a built by Captain Charles M. Weber, founder of Stockton. Weber was pioneer of California and built a two-story adobe -and-redwood house in 1850. At the time it was the largest house in Stockton.