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Aerial view of refinery, tanks, and vehicles. Name later became Beacon Oil.

Distant view of seasonal cavalry camp structures at Camp A.E. Wood, Wawona, Calif.; with bridge in foreground, and eighteen men standing and seated on bridge, and standing with mules nearby.

This photo of a Union Army band is believed taken at the wartime location of Camp Babbitt in Visalia, CA. Located at its original site at what now is occupied by the intersection of Race and Santa Fe streets, the camp moved following the end of the…

The band forms up at Camp Babbitt, located at Visalia, CA, to control southern sympathizers during the Civil War.

Distant overview of buildings and surrounding hillsides of Camp Bootjack, Calif.; caption handwritten on photograph: "Camp Bootjack, CCC Co. 1912, Mariposa, Calif."

East of Porterville, CA, and in the Sierra mountains, Guthrie cattle ranch stock is shown at Quaking Aspen meadows about 1920. (Photo courtesy of Porterville Library)

This is the Camp Nelson Lodge, in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, as it appeared in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

This is the Camp Nelson Lodge, in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, as it appeared in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

This one lane road carried traffic to and from Camp Nelson in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, in the late 1930s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

The swimming pool at Camp Nelson, in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, is shown as it appeared in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)