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  • Collection: Fresno County Public Library General Photographs

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The First Methodist Episcopal Church located on the southeast corner of M and Tuolumne Streets. It was a grey cement building with black roof and buff trim. There are multiple stain glass windows.

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An unusual scene of snow on the ground in Fresno, looking at the courthouse up Mariposa Street, from Van Ness, the Water Tower in the background.

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In 1891, W.R. Hampton sold his site and store holdings of the town called Hamptonville near San Joaquin River to a railroad developer named Marcus Pollasky. Mr. Pollasky who was building a 27 mile railroad from Tulare Street in Fresno to this…

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A view of the Shaver Lake Sawmill site. Railroad tracks and the Shaver Flume can be seen in the picture.

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A wintertime scene of Barnes's Service Station and the Big Creek Post Office and Store early 1920's rebuilt after a fire.

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Looking up the road in Big Creek, California 1923. On the left side of the road is a dentist office and Murphy's Art Shop on the right various structures and the wooden school buildings in the center at a distance.

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C.J. Aggergaard Department store and residence, Big Creek, CA.

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The Big Creek Garage and Big Creek Parlor with a few locals on the front porch and a horse team and 2 men in the foreground. Taken in the winter time with snow on the ground.

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Thomas Fowler, Kings River Cattle King and owner of the famous "76" brand. Town of Fowler is located where his loading corrals were and is named for him.
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