James Gorman left his homeland of Ireland in the 1840’s because of the famine there. Because of the mass migration…
Alexis Godey was an early trapper-explorer who first came into California with John C. Fremont. Godey accompanied Fremont on several…
ANNUAL EMPHASIS. . . . This year the Ridge Route Communities Museum is commemorating the 175 th anniversary of the…
Phineas Banning (August 19, 1830 – March 8, 1885) was an American businessman, financier and entrepreneur. Known as “The Father…
Born in 1892 and raised in Stanislaus County, the late Frank F. Latta was former director of the Kern County…
1868 – 1934 Mary Hunter Austin was a colorful and popular author who was a member of the artist community…
JOHN FLETCHER CUDDY John Cuddy left Ireland during the potato famine of the 1840’s. So many Irish were coming during…
Sam Bishop was born in Virginia in 1825 to a family that soon moved on to Missouri. As a young…
Edward Beale came to the future area of California from New England as a young Navy Lieutenant in the Mexican…