Timeline of Fresno, California
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fresno, California, USA.
19th century
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- 1856 – Fresno County formed in 1856 with Millerton, a settlement along the San Joaquin River, as the county seat.[1]
- 1865 – William Helm brings his wife and his sheep to the valley floor area south of Millerton.[2]
- 1870 - Weekly Expositor newspaper in publication.[3]
- 1872 – Fresno station founded by the Central Pacific Railroad Company[4]
- 1874 – County seat of Fresno County moves from Millerton to Fresno due to population growth.[5]
- 1875
- Fresno County Courthouse built.
- Central California Colony established south of Fresno, creating a successful model for attracting settlers.[4][6]
- 1876 – Fresno Morning Republican newspaper in publication.[7]
- 1877 – Fresno Volunteer Fire Department organized.[8]
- 1881 - William Helm bought the block bounded by Fresno, R, Merced and S Streets from Louis Einstein.[9]
- 1882 – St. John Church built.
- 1884 – Big Fresno Fair begins.[10]
- 1885 – Fresno incorporated.[11]
- 1889 – Meux Home built.[12]
- 1890
- Barton opera house opens.[11]
- Population exceeds 10,000.[4]
- 1892 - Street cars introduced [4]
- 1893 – Fresno Free Public Library opens.[13]
- 1894
- Fresno Parlor Lecture Club organized.[14]
- Fresno Water Tower built.
- San Francisco-Fresno bike messenger service (during the Pullman Strike) initiated.[15]
- 1899 – Santa Fe Passenger Depot opens.
- 1900 – Population: 12,470.[16]
20th century
1900s–1940s
- 1901
- Fresno City Railway in operation.
- Fresno Buddhist Temple founded.[17]
- 1904 – Gottschalks shop in business.
- 1904 - First Butcher Shop Opened by Andrew David Green
- 1906 – Forestiere Underground Gardens begin developing.
- 1908 – Asparēz Armenian/English-language newspaper begins publication.
- 1909 – Raisin Day festival begins.[18][19]
- 1910 – Fresno Junior College opens.
- 1911
- Fresno State Normal School founded.[18]
- Sunnyside Country Club opens.
- 1913 – Commercial Club organized.[11]
- 1914 – Holy Trinity Church built.
- 1918
- Sun-Maid raisin facility begins operating.
- Bank of Italy building constructed.
- 1919 – Fresno Historical Society[8] and Temple Beth Israel founded.
- 1921 – Fresno State College established.[16]
- 1922 - KMJ 580AM Radio begins broadcasting.
- 1922 – Fresno Bee newspaper begins publication.[20]
- 1923
- Fort Washington Golf and Country Club established.
- San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation Building constructed.
- 1925 – Security Pacific Bank Building constructed.
- 1926 – Fresno State Stadium dedicated.[18]
- 1928 – Pantages Theater opens.
- 1929
- Roeding Park Zoo opens.
- Z. S. Leymel becomes mayor.
- Chandler Airport opens as area's primary airport.
- 1932 – Fresno Memorial Auditorium built.[16]
- 1935 – Academy (social group) formed.[21]
- 1939 – Tower Theatre opens.
- 1942 – U.S. Air Force Hammer Airfield and Japanese American internment camp in use.
- 1944 – Pacific Bible Institute founded.[22]
- 1946 – Sierra Sky Park Airport residential aviation community established near city.
- 1947 – Hammer Field National Guard training area and Fresno Air Terminal established, becoming primary hub of commercial aviation instead of Chandler Airport.
- 1948 – Azteca Theater built.
1950s–1990s
- 1954 – Peoples Church and Fresno Philharmonic [1] founded.
- 1955 – Bernice F. Sisk becomes U.S. representative for California's 12th congressional district.[23]
- 1960 – Mexican American Political Association founded.[24]
- 1961 – City of Fresno Takes over municipal bus service.
- 1962 – Farm Workers Association founding meeting held in Fresno.[25]
- 1964
- Fulton Mall dedicated.
- 1966
- Fresno Convention Center complex built.
- Fresno County Courthouse rebuilt.
- 1967 – Catholic Diocese of Fresno established.
- 1968 - Woodward Park opened in north Fresno.
- 1969 – Kiddie Kinema movie theatre opens.[26]
- 1970
- Fashion Fair Mall in business.
- Population: 167,927.[5]
- 1973 – Good Company Players founded.[27]
- 1977 – KMTF television begins broadcasting.
- 1983 – Fresno Metronews begins publication.
- 1984
- Nanaksar Gurdwara founded.
- Fresno Metropolitan Museum established.[28]
- 1989
- Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill closes.
- Karen Humphrey becomes mayor.
- 1990
- Vida en el Valle Spanish/English-language newspaper begins publication.[29]
- Population: 354,202.[30]
- 1992 – Hmong Times newspaper in publication.[31]
- 1993
- Hmong Today (television program) begins broadcasting.
- San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center established.[2]
- Jim Patterson becomes mayor.
- 1996 – Tahoe Joe's restaurant in business.
- 1997
- Community Food Bank active.[3][32]
- River Park shopping center in business.
- 1998
- City website online.[33][34]
- Fresno Grizzlies baseball team formed.
- Fresno Stadium 22 cinema opens.[26]
- 2000
- University High School established.[22]
- Mormon Fresno California Temple dedicated.
21st century
- 2001
- Alan Autry becomes Mayor
- 2002
- Grizzlies Stadium opens.
- 2003
- Save Mart Center (arena) opens.
- Ani-Jam anime convention begins.
- 2005
- Woodward Shakespeare Festival and Artists' Repertory Theatre founded.
- Jim Costa becomes U.S. representative for California's 20th congressional district.[35]
- Coyle United States Courthouse built.
- 2008 – Neighborhood Thrift shop in business.[36]
- 2009 – Ashley Swearengin becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Fresno Metropolitan Museum closes.[28]
- Population reaches 494,665 people.[37]
- 2013
- Poet laureate inaugurated.[38]
- Bitwise Industries launches, bringing a technology and entrepreneur community together. Starts with Bitwise Mural District, and more Fresno campuses follow.
- 2014
- Fresno General Plan adopted, becoming the first one in decades to not expand the Sphere of Influence.
- 2015
- On January 6, Governor Jerry Brown attends a groundbreaking ceremony for California High-Speed Rail in downtown Fresno at the future location of Fresno's High Speed Rail Station.[39]
- Fresno Declares Drought; worst recorded precipitation levels; 130 years. Water Use Reduction/Conservation Begins.
- 2017 – Fresno shootings.
- 2020
- Population reaches 542,161 people.[40]
- 2021
- Former Police Chief Jerry Dyer becomes Fresno's 26th mayor.
See also
- History of Fresno
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Fresno County, California
- Timelines of other cities in the Northern California area of California: Mountain View, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose
References
- ^ Walker 1934, p. 2.
- ^ Guinn, J. M. (1905). History of the State of California with Biographical Record. Chicago: The Chapman Publishing Co. pp. 669–670.
- ^ Vandor 1919, p. 149.
- ^ a b c d "History of Fresno". City of Fresno Planning and Development. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
- ^ a b Nergal 1980.
- ^ Painter 1994.
- ^ Vandor 1919, p. 150.
- ^ a b Fresno Historical Society. "Collections: Manuscripts". Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ Eaton 1964.
- ^ Laval, Elizabeth M. (October 20, 2004). The Fresno Fair: As Seen Through the Lens of Claude C. Pop Laval. Word Dancer Press. ISBN 9781884995484.
- ^ a b c Vandor 1919.
- ^ "Thomas R. Meux Home (1889)". Local Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
- ^ "History of Fresno County Public Library". Fresno County Public Library. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
- ^ California Federation of Women's Clubs (1907). Club Women of California. San Francisco.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon (2011). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Cycling. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5.
- ^ a b c Federal Writers' Project 1939.
- ^ Diana Marcum (2011). "Closure of historic temple in Fresno dismays Japanese American community". Religion. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Fresno State Centennial" (Historical Timeline). California State University, Fresno. 2010. Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ "Raisin Day Excitement at Fresno". Pacific Rural Press. April 24, 1920 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ Project for Excellence in Journalism (2012). "McClatchy Company". Media Ownership Database. State of the News Media. Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center.
- ^ Madden Library. "Local History". Research Guides. California State University, Fresno. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ a b Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Fresno, California". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ "California". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1958. hdl:2027/mdp.39015024835871.
- ^ Cordelia Candelaria, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33210-4.
- ^ Marshall Ganz (2010). Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-975785-5.
- ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Fresno, CA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ "American Association of Community Theatre". Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ a b Pogrebin, Robin (July 23, 2013). "Death of a Museum". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 8, 2021.
- ^ "Non-English readers targeted". Reno Gazette Journal. February 17, 1991. Retrieved October 31, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ "Non-English readers targeted". Merced Sun Star. August 17, 1992. Retrieved February 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "California Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ "City Hall Gets Web Site", Fresno Bee, May 10, 1998
- ^ "City of Fresno". Archived from the original on 2000-02-29 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ "(Fresno)". Northern California Community Loan Fund. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ "Fresno (city), California". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 27, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ Norimitsu Onishi (May 7, 2013). "Recognition Grows for Poets of Streets, Main or Otherwise". The New York Times.
- ^ David Siders (January 7, 2015). "Groundbreaking at Fresno for California high-speed rail". The Sacramento Bee.
- ^ "QuickFacts: Fresno city, California". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
Further reading
Books
- Published in the 19th century
- Elliot, Wallace W. (1882), History of Fresno County California, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, farms, residences, public buildings, factories, hotels, business houses, schools, churches, and mines, from original drawings, with biographical sketches, San Francisco, California: Elliot & Co., OCLC 6401403
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - "California homes and industries, and representative citizens : a serial showing the improvements and progress of the state, and containing hundreds of beautiful etchings, photogravures, artotypes, and artistic colored lithographs", California Homes and Industries and Representative Citizens, The Elliott Publishing Company, 1891, OCLC 10465177
- Thompson, Thomas Hinkley (1891), Official historical atlas map of Fresno County, Tulare, California: Holmes Book Co., OL 22958136M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Imperial Fresno: resources, industries and scenery, Fresno, California: Fresno Republican, 1897, OCLC 12092695
- Angel, Myron (1892), A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California, Chicago, Illinois: Lewis publishing company, OCLC 2861404, OL 24832069M
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- Published in the 20th century
- Guinn, James Miller (1905), History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin Valley, California. A historical story of the states marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time, Chapman Publishing, OCLC 6833442
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Vandor, Paul E. (1919), History of Fresno County California with biographical sketches volume 1 & 2, Los Angeles, California: Historic Record Company, OCLC 904717704, OL 13493008M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Winchell, Libourne Alsip (1933), History of Fresno County and the San Joaquin Valley: Narrative and Biographical, Fresno, California: Arthur H. Cawson, OCLC 12820630
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Walker, Ben Randal (1934), Fresno: 1872–1885, a municipality in the making, Fresno County Historical Society, OCLC 31139940
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Walker, Ben Randal (1941), Fresno County Blue Book, Fresno, California: Arthur H. Cawson, OCLC 16390173
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Walker, Ben Randal (1946), Fresno Community Book, Fresno, California: Arthur H. Cawson, OCLC 3454556
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Eaton, Edwin M. (1964), Vintage Fresno: pictorial recollections of a western city, Fresno, California: Huntington Press, OCLC 2007613
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Rocq, Margaret Miller (1970), "Fresno County: Fresno", California local history: a bibliography (2 ed.), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804707169, OCLC 86426
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Waiczis, Michael R., and William B. Secrest, Jr. A Portrait of Fresno, 1885–1985: A Publication of the Centennial History Committee. Fresno: Centennial History Committee, 1985.
- Clough, Charles W.; Secrest, William B.; Temple, Bobbye Sisk (1984), Fresno County: The pioneer years, from the beginning to 1900, Fresno, California: Panorama West Books, ISBN 9780914330707, OCLC 11661147
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Clough, Charles W.; Secrest, William B.; Temple, Bobbye Sisk (1986), Fresno County in the 20th century: from 1900 to the 1980s, Fresno, California: Panorama West Books, ISBN 9780914330974, OCLC 15023778
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Rehart, Schylar; Patterson, William K. (January 1988), M. Theo Kearney: prince of Fresno, The Fresno City and County Historical Society, ASIN B0042GN0HI
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Garcia, Joseph G. (1988), Kearney Park: How did my garden grow?, Unknown, ISBN 9780962049101, OCLC 19508645
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Painter, John (1994), Central California Colony: marvel of the desert (PDF), The Fresno City and County Historical Society, OCLC 31139940, archived from the original on June 24, 2016
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Rehart, Catherine Morison (1996), The valley's legends and legacies I, Fresno, California: Quill Driver Books, ISBN 9781884995125, OCLC 228659229
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- Published in the 21st century
- Rehart, Catherine Morison (2000), The heartland's heritage: an illustrated history of Fresno County, Carlsbad, California: Heritage Media, ISBN 9781886483323, OCLC 45554593
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Smith, Wallace; Secrest, William B. (2004), Garden of the Sun: A History of the San Joaquin Valley, 1772-1939 (2 ed.), Fresno, California: Linden Publishing, ISBN 9780941936774, OCLC 53131400
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Hunter, Pat; Stevens, Janice (2006), Fresno's architectural past: volume I, Craven Street Books, ISBN 9780941936972
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Hunter, Pat; Stevens, Janice (September 2007), Fresno's architectural past: volume II, Craven Street Books, ISBN 9781933502137
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Periodicals
- Thickens, Virginia E. (June 1946). "Pioneer Agricultural Colonies of Fresno County". California Historical Society Quarterly. 25 (2): 171. doi:10.2307/25155973. JSTOR 25155973. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- "Fresno Past and Present", Quarterly Journal of the Fresno City and County Historical Society. Fresno: The Society, 1959-
- "Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns". The New York Times. March 25, 2009.
- "Rescuing the Rural Edge — It Takes a Village". Pacific Standard. Santa Barbara, California: Miller McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy. September 6, 2011. (about Fresno's Southeast Growth Area)
- James Fallows (2015), "Welcome to American Futures 3.0", The Atlantic (series of articles about Fresno)
- Jangian, Aris (2016). "Come See California's Future: In beautiful Fresno". Boom: A Journal of California. 6 (1): 102–107. JSTOR 26413157. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
Travel guides
- "Fresno City". California State Gazetteer and Business Directory. San Francisco: R.L. Polk & Co. 1888.
- "Fresno". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Fresno", California: Guide to the Golden State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - "San Joaquin Valley: Fresno". California. Let's Go. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1998. p. 510+. OL 10387102M.
- "San Joaquin Valley: Fresno". California. Lonely Planet. 2003. OL 8647775M.
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Fresno, CA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Fresno, California.
- Madden Library. "Fresno Research". Research Guides. California State University, Fresno.
- Items related to Fresno, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- Materials related to Fresno, California, various dates (via US Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
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