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This is downtown Orosi, CA, 1913. The general store is on the left, and the National Bank of Orosi on the right.

This group of men gathered around fallen sequoia tree have estimated that the section thely are standing with contains 25,000 board feet. This photo was taken in the early 1900s.

Halftone: A group of people gathers around the stump of a fallen Giant Sequoia (redwood) tree.

Newsprint: One of the last of the ox teams to appear in the San Joaquin Valley brought a load of lumber from R. L. Hill Mills in the Sierras to Farmersville, CA, about 1906. It stopped here in front of "the old Brundage Store" in Farmersville.

This Santa Fe Railroad trestle shows extensive damage after a 1955 flood of the Kaweah River in Tulare County, CA.

These are plans for a single-track locomotive, illustrating the top, side and back wheel views. D. Brigham James invented the locomotive in Visalia, CA, about 1880.

This is the cabin at Stone Corral, Tulare County, CA, at which outlaws Sontag and Evans were fired upon by a Tulare County Sheriff's Posse, June 11, 1893.

This adobe cabin, occupied by Native Americans, was located at T.21S.,R.28 E., M.D.B. & M., about 3.5 miles east of the city of Porterville, Tulare County, CA. This tract was informally established in 1856 as an Indian Reservation, and was acquired…

Eva Evans McCullough seated on steps of house built by Chris Evans and his twin brother Tom in 1875. Located at "Redwood Ranch," the cabin was being used as a Sequoia National Park Ranger Station as of 1936. This informaiton was provided by Eva,…

John Swanson's cabin, built of oak logs in the late 1850s, was located on Visalia's East Mineral King Avenue. This structure now can be seen at the Tulare County Museum at Mooney Grove County Park in Visalia, CA.