Pedro Fages
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Pedro Fages was a Spanish soldier, explorer, and first lieutenant governor of the province of the Californias under Gaspar de Portolá. Fages claimed the governorship after Portolá's departure, acting
Incidents in California History mural at the United States Post Office, Berkeley (detail). Caption reads: "Pedro Fages and Fray Juan Crespi first white men to set foot on land now Berkeley..."
San Joaquin Valley
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The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. Famed as a major breadbasket, the San Joaquin Valley is an important source of food, producing a significant part of Califor
Pedro Fages
…that she herself had bribed the Indian girl to take part in the plot… Thank God we are now living in union and harmony." The place Fages entered in the San Joaquin Valley is a California Historical Landmark number 291 signed on June 27, 1938. The spot is now on California State Route 166, about 20 miles south of Bakersfield…
San Joaquin Valley
Millerton Lake, supplied by the Madera Canal and Friant-Kern Canal
César Chávez at a United Farmworkers rally, 1974
Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 1977.