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Nathaniel Vise, 1810 - 1888. Born in Maysville, Kentucky and married Matilda Jarbeau in Maysville in 1833. Vise is the man after whom Visalia was named. Nathainel Vise was a junior.

Visalia, CA, was named for Nathaniel Vise, a Kentucky native born in 1810 who later owned a restaurant in San Francisco that featured bear meat. He became know as "the bear hunter." In 1852, he filed on a quarter acre in what now is Visalia, near…

North side of Main Street Court to Church.

Old Drug House ( Dr. Baker) with Masonic Lodge on second floor. Corner of Main (Mill) and Church. No

Old home in Visalia, Kentucky, October, 1995.

Northeast corner of Court Street at Center. Ox team in front of Centennial Hall, Visalia.

Interior shot of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph office in Visalia showing switchboards and telephone operators. Located on the Northwest corner of Church and Acequia. (ca 1920's)

Louis Paulhan, an early French aviator who designed "La Canard," the world's first seaplane, is shown circling the field at the January, 1910, Los Angeles International Air Meet.

Louis Paulhan, an early French aviator who designed "La Canard," the world's first seaplane, is shown circling the field at the January, 1910, Los Angeles International Air Meet.

Annie Mitchell and Roy Brooks present photos of Nat and Matilda Vise to Mayor Edmund Vollmer of Visalia, November 3, 1969. Mayor Vollmer is on the left.. Photos were placed in Visalia City Hall.