Looking up the San Joaquin River Pollasky California
Rivers -- California -- Fresno County -- Photographs.; San Joaquin River (Calif.) -- Photographs.
The San Joaquin River Basin encompasses nearly 15,000 square miles. The river's headwaters begin life as snow on the peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains seen in the background. Most of the Sierra's annual average 80 to 90 inches of snowpack eventually melts toward the valley floor during the summer. Friant Dam was built at Pollasky (called Friant after 1921) in the 1940s creating Millerton Lake. Because of the number and variety of individuals and groups it benefits, the San Joaquin River has earned the title of "California's hardest working and most fought-over waterway".
1 Photographic print :b&w ;9 x 14 cm.
San Joaquin Valley Library System
ca 1907
Fresno County Public Library
This image is being made available for educational and research purposes only, under the "fair use" clause of the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) Further questions regarding the image or its use may be directed to the Fresno County Public Library, Heritage Center, 2420 Mariposa St, Fresno, CA 93721. Phone: 559-600-6230 HeritageCenter@fresnolibrary.org
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San Joaquin River and Pollasky California
Friant, Thomas, d. 1927.; Pollasky, Marcus.; Rivers -- California -- Fresno County -- Photographs.; San Joaquin River (Calif.) -- Photographs.
This point has been known by various names since miners first visited in the 1850s. It has been called Converse Ferry, Jones Ferry, Hamptonville, and with the arrival of the railroad was rechristened "Pollasky". The name came from Marcus Pollasky, sent to Fresno by the Southern Pacific Railroad, to promote a railroad eastward from Fresno over the Sierras. The first train ran October 1, 1892. Investors intended to turn the hamlet into a major city but the planned improvements never materialized and Marcus Pollasky quietly departed Fresno County. By 1921 it was called Friant after Thomas Friant, partner in the White-Friant Lumber Company who died in 1927.
1 Photographic print :b&w ;9 x 14 cm.
San Joaquin Valley Library System
ca 1907
Fresno County Public Library
This image is being made available for educational and research purposes only, under the "fair use" clause of the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) Further questions regarding the image or its use may be directed to the Fresno County Public Library, Heritage Center, 2420 Mariposa St, Fresno, CA 93721. Phone: 559-600-6230 HeritageCenter@fresnolibrary.org
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