Picture taken during the summer of 1895 when water was "low" Eight Mule team wagonners, checking the branch canal. The drops were put in for two purposes, to keep the banks from washing out and also to allow the water to be readily turned into…
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.