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Top left - Methodist Episcpol Church, first church built in Visalia (1857) church divided North and South during Civil War. Division lasted into the 20th century.
Top right - Methodist Episcopal Church built in 1905.
Bottom left - St Mary's…

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Fruit is dried on trays at the Mineral King Ranch, east of Visalia, CA, in the early 1920's. The ranch was near what later became Cutler Park, a Tulare County-owned park along the Saint John's River.

G. S. Berry's Steam Traction plow in operation pulling five plows.

Elias Jacob was the first president of the Visalia Board of Trade and owned considerable property in Visalia including the Jacob Building(1876) as well as the Pioneer Store in Centerville, CA.

D. E. Walker first saddle shop located on 60 Main Street.

Photo of a catalog page advertising No. 1, 2, and 3 Visalia Saddles.

Photo from the Walker & Wade Genuine Visalia Stock Saddles

After the battle at Stone Corral, John Sontag is lying in a straw pile with the posse standing behind him. Left to right is the posse and other on-lookers:
1. Visalia Samuel Stingley
2. Deputy United States Marshal and Fresno County Deputy Sheriff…

G. S. Berry's Steam Harvester, showing machinery,

The Mark Twain Tree was cut in 1891 and sent to American Museum of Natural History in New York. The stump is near the entrance to Grant Grove.