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The Tulare Free Public Library was established as an act of the city council in 1901. The building was presented to the city by the Southern Pacific Railroad when their shops relocated to Bakersfield, California.

Built in 1883, the French Hotel was destroyed twice by fires of the 1880s. Located in the 100 block of South J Street in Tulare, (then Front Street), only the brick facade remained after the last big fire of 1889. The French Hotel finished its days…

These bonds (worth over a half million dollars) were burned in October of 1903, setting the city free from its greatest indebtedness.

Train repair early 1920s.

The Union School District was established in 1865. This photo is of the building erected in 1892.

Man sitting on porch of early railroad building later known as library hall.

Oh, what a wreck!

Seven men and one boy at rail station.

Train wreck of the Visalia-Tulare Electric Railroad May 5, 1900.

This is a picture of Ward Ranch which was located on Oakland Colony Road [Pratt Street]. Seated in the center is Dr. R.J. Young. The two small girls behind him to the right are Flora Gamble Wilder and sister, Alice Gamble Mulcahy.