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Picture of James Garfield Elementary School located at 2535 B Street in Selma, California, which was named after James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States. The school opened in September, 1938 and is currently one of twelve schools…

Home for the the Masonic Hall in Selma, California. Purchased in March 1927 and opened officially in May 13, 1927. This Selma Lodge 277, Free and Accepted Masons, was organized October 29, 1884. The City Directory of 1927 locates the building at…

Picture of the Hotel Grand, on the corner of G and 12th Street in Reedley, California, taken sometime between March 1905 and 1917. This three-story, forty-room hotel was built in 1891-92 by the Pacific Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the…

Street scene in Friant, California on November 10, 1939. The Friant Garage is seen to the left. The Friant Dam groundbreaking had been held just five days previous on November 5, 1939. Construction of the dam caused an influx of job seekers looking…

Street scene in Friant, California, probably around 1940. The Log Cabin, probably a restaurant, is seen in the middle.

With two American flags flying from its top rim and with the sign seen in this picture the bucket delivered the first load of concrete to Friant Dam at 2 O'clock in the afternoon of Monday, July 29, 1940. The ceremony was arranged by the Central…

The San Joaquin River Basin encompasses nearly 15,000 square miles. The river's headwaters begin life as snow on the peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains seen in the background. Most of the Sierra's annual average 80 to 90 inches of snowpack…

Unidentified test cores created during the construction of Friant Dam.

This point has been known by various names since miners first visited in the 1850s. It has been called Converse Ferry, Jones Ferry, Hamptonville, and with the arrival of the railroad was rechristened "Pollasky". The name came from Marcus Pollasky,…

Millerton Lake is the reservoir created by Friant Dam. The lake first stored water on February 21, 1944 and continues to provide water storage, flood control, and recreation. It can hold 520,528 acre-feet of water, has a surface area of 4,900 acres…