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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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…

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.

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.