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This is the restored residence of Colonel and Mrs. Allen Allensworth in Allensworth, CA. The colonel was a self-taught, Kentucky-born slave who eventually became a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and a chaplain at the San Francisco…

Clinton T. Brown (right) operated this sheep camp in the Springville, CA, area in 1889. The other two men are unidentified.

Clinton T. Brown (left) and Demming Gibbons (center) operated this sheep camp in the Springville, CA, area in 1885. The man at right is unidentified.

This was the 1915 scene in front of the Visalia (CA) Creamery, located on Oak Street between Court and Church streets in that city. The creamery was the home of award-winning Golden Crown Butter.

George Stockton Berry, a resident of Tulare County, CA, was a prolific inventor of farm equipment focused on mechanization. In the late 1800s, he invented the G. S. Berry Steam Harvester.

The Visalia Saddle, purchased by stockmen throughout the United States and its territories, was first made in Visalia, CA, in 1870. Around 1900, an uncustomized version sold for anywhere from $35 to $45. A 2008 Internet page for Visalia Stock…