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The Social Hall at California Oilfields Limited

The Porterville Municipal Band.

The Porterville Free Public Library built in 1906 with funds fron the Carnegie Library Foundation. The Library sat on the southwest corner of Thurman Avenue and Main Street. It was torn down in 1949.

This view is from a county bridge, looking eastward and upstream, on the McClung ranch two miles from the headgate.

Bridge over the Pioneer Canal, with a mule drawn wagon crossing.

A group poses with a statue of the Pied Piper displayed at the Kern County Fair.

From this enlarged version of the Pacific Hotel, D.W. Madden started the waterworks which eventually serviced much of the city of Tulare. [See water tower behind the hotel]. After the hotel burned in 1886, Madden started the water works for the city…

Several men seated around tables playing cards in the "Orange Saloon".

The home of Perry C. and Elizabeth Phillips who, in 1860, settled in the Kingston area, just south of the Kings River from present day Laton. This two story wood frame house with a dozen rooms was constructed in 1869 from lumber brought on wagons…