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This photo shows the entrance to Mooney Grove County Park in Visalia, CA, about 1920. This park is the site of the famous "End of the Trail" statue, and features a large grove of valley oak trees.

This class of 7th and 8th graders attended Rockford School in Tulare County, CA, in 1931. There were Rockford Schools in both Porterville and Dinuba, and the school these students attended is unknown.

Tulare County, CA, had two "Rockford Schools," one in Dinuba and one Porterville. This photo shows the 7th and 8th grades of one of those schools in 1930.

Men pose in front of the Union Ice Co. in Visalia, CA, ca 1900. From left to right are Charles Huff, Ross Cecil, Claude Hunt, Walter Reddy, Len Castrello, Andy Gifford, and Bill Loval.

What might be a doctor's horse and buggy are parked in front of a brick building -- a medical building? -- in Visalia, CA, ca 1900.

The "cult of the watermelon" members in Visalia, CA, are shown enjoying the locally grown fruit in this group shot taken ca 1899. The names Overall, Slocum, and McKinney can be seen written on some of the subjects. The seated man is not clearly…

This was the graduating class of 1907 at Tulare Union High School in Tulare, CA, along with the teaching staff.

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.

A steam-powered locomotive pulls a load of fresh-cut lumber from the sawmill in Sequoia National Park, CA, in the late 1800s.