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The "old Joe Carter place" in Three Rivers, CA, later became Spots' Cider Mill and, still later, the Sequoia Cider Mill, still operational in 2002. The original road to Sequoia National Park passed in front of the site. That road became State…

By the early 1900s, mechanical harvesting became the norm on large ranches in the Ducor area of southern Tulare County, CA.

Robert Null and his wife moved to Traver, Calif., in 1892. Traver at that time was an important grain shipping town.

Steam-powered locomotives were used in the late 1800s to pull sections of log to the sawmill wherever possible in Sequoia National Park, CA.

This mule-driven harvester and crew were harvesting grain on the ranch owned by S. S. Cederberg in Dinuba, CA, in the late 1800s.

The Dickey brothers operated this store in the late 1800s in Woodville, CA, west of Porterville.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hagler at their 1888 marriage in Santa Rosa, CA. They settled in the Packwood District sourth of Visalia, CA, where they lived for 65 years.

The shade of this Valley Oak tree, east of Visalia, CA, at the base of Venice Hill, was the July 10, 1852, site of the founding of Tulare County, CA. The founding party was under the command of Major James Savage.

This is the Methodist Church in Lindsay, CA. It still is in use in the 21st century.

This Southern Pacific Railroad train doesn't let a little watter stop it as it visits Visalia, CA, during a flood season ca 1900.