Timeline of Fresno, California

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fresno, California, USA.

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  • 1865 - William Helm borught his wife and his sheep to Fresno.[1]
  • 1872 – Founded by the Central Pacific Railroad Company [2]
  • 1874 – Fresno becomes seat of Fresno County.[3]
  • 1875
    • Fresno County Courthouse built.
    • Fresno Expositor newspaper in publication.[4]
    • Central California Colony established south of Fresno, creating a successful model for attracting settlers. [2] [5]
  • 1876 – Fresno Morning Republican newspaper in publication.[6]
  • 1877 – Fresno Volunteer Fire Department organized.[7]
  • 1881 - William Helm bought the block bounded by Fresno, R, Merced and S Streets from Louis Einstein.[8]
  • 1882 – St. John Church built.
  • 1884 – Big Fresno Fair begins.
  • 1885 – Fresno incorporated.[9]
  • 1889 – Meux Home built.[10]
  • 1890
    • Barton opera house opens.[9]
    • Population exceeds 10,000.[2]
  • 1892 - Street cars introduced [2]
  • 1893 – Fresno Free Public Library opens.
  • 1894
  • 1899 – Santa Fe Passenger Depot opens.
  • 1900 – Population: 12,470.[13]

20th century

1900s–1940s

1950s–1990s

21st century

See also

References
  1. Guinn, J. M. (1905). History of the State of California with Biographical Record. Chicago: The Chapman Publishing Co. pp. 669–670.
  2. ["History of Fresno".]
  3. Nergal 1980.
  4. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  5. Panter, John. "Central California Colony: Marvel of the Desert" (PDF). The Journal of the Fresno City and County Historical Society. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  6. "The Fresno Republican Newspaper". The Fresno Republican. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  7. Fresno Historical Society. "Collections: Manuscripts". Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  8. Vintage Fresno, Pictorial Recollections of a Wester City, Edwin M. Eaton, The Hungington Press, Fresno, California, 1965.
  9. Vandor 1919.
  10. "Thomas R. Meux Home (1889)". Local Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  11. California Federation of Women's Clubs (1907). Club Women of California. San Francisco.
  12. Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon (2011). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Cycling. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5.
  13. Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  14. Pluralism Project. "Fresno, California". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  15. "Fresno State Centennial" (Historical Timeline). California State University, Fresno. 2010. Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  16. "Raisin Day Excitement at Fresno". Pacific Rural Press. April 24, 1920 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  17. Project for Excellence in Journalism (2012). "McClatchy Company". Media Ownership Database. State of the News Media. Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center.
  18. Madden Library. "Local History". Research Guides. California State University, Fresno. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  19. Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Fresno, California". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  20. "California". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1958. hdl:2027/mdp.39015024835871.
  21. Cordelia Candelaria, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33210-4.
  22. 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.
  23. "Movie Theaters in Fresno, CA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  24. "American Association of Community Theatre". Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  25. American Association for State and Local History (2002). "California: Fresno". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). p. 64. ISBN 0759100020.
  26. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
  27. "California Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  28. "City Hall Gets Web Site", Fresno Bee, May 10, 1998
  29. "City of Fresno". Archived from the original on February 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  30. Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  31. "(Fresno)". Northern California Community Loan Fund. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  32. "Death of a Museum". The New York Times. July 23, 2013.
  33. "Fresno (city), California". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 27, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  34. Norimitsu Onishi (May 7, 2013). "Recognition Grows for Poets of Streets, Main or Otherwise". The New York Times.
  35. "Current Planning". www.fresno.gov. Fresno, California. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  36. Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Chronology", California: Guide to the Golden State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House – via Open Library

Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
  • "Fresno City". California State Gazetteer and Business Directory. San Francisco: R.L. Polk & Co. 1888.
Published in the 20th century
  • Charter and Ordinances of the city of Fresno, California. Fresno: Franklin Printing House. 1911. OL 7124979M.
  • State Commission of Immigration and Housing of California (1918). Report on Fresno's immigration problem. Sacramento: California state printing office. OL 24362705M.
  • "Fresno". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919.
  • Paul E. Vandor (1919), History of Fresno County, California, Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, OL 13493008M
  • Ben Randal Walker, "Fresno: 1872–1885, A Municipality in the Making", Fresno County Historical Society Publications, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1934.
  • Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Fresno", California: Guide to the Golden State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House
  • "Fresno Past and Present", Quarterly Journal of the Fresno City and County Historical Society. Fresno: The Society, 1959-
  • Eaton, Edwin M. Vintage Fresno: Pictorial Recollections of a Western City'. Fresno: Huntington Press, 1964.
  • Margaret Miller Rocq, ed. (1970). "Fresno County: Fresno". California Local History: A Bibliography (2nd ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-8047-0716-9.
  • Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Fresno, CA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
  • 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.
  • "San Joaquin Valley: Fresno". California. Let's Go. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1998. p. 510+. OL 10387102M.
Published in the 21st century

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