Templeton, California
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Templeton is a census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. The population was 8,368 at the 2020 census, up from 7,674 at the 2010 census.
Templeton Park
Feed and grain silo in downtown Templeton, 2017
Castoro Cellars concert in Templeton
Fall colors in a Templeton vineyard
Templeton Crocker
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Charles Templeton Crocker was an American philanthropist, art patron and scion of the Crocker family. He was a past president of the California Historical Society and a member of the board of director
Templeton, California
…President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, Charles F. Crocker; however, Crocker instead chose to name the town "Templeton," after his two-year-old son, Charles Templeton Crocker. The town was briefly the end of the line for passengers travelling south via the Southern Pacific Railroad from northern California; passengers…
Crocker in 1932
Uplands II, photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston shortly after completion in 1917. The mansion is now the main building of the private Crystal Springs Uplands School.
Russian Hill from Telegraph Hill in 1955; at the time, 945 Green was the tallest and most prominent building pictured. Templeton Crocker owned the penthouse apartment.
The original south wings (L) and added double-width north wing (R) of the St. Francis Hotel, photographed in 2016 overlooking Union Square