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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ9F_libby-mcneill-and-libby-cannery_Selma-CA.html
On this 6 1/4 acre site, Libby, McNeill and Libby opened the San Joaquin Valley's largest cannery on July 18, 1911, less than four hectic months after the site was acquired and construction plans were announced. The initial construction cost was 2…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ18_groundwater-irrigation-beginnings_Selma-CA.html
[Marker Front:]Groundwater Irrigation BeginningsThe San Joaquin Valley's groundwater reservoir was first tapped with a practical pumping plant 4 miles northeast of here on Dec. 12, 1894. William De La Grange of Selma, tired of upstream irrigationi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQP_selma_Selma-CA.html
Founded along this street in the late spring and early summer of 1880 by Jacob E. Whitson, George B. Otis, Monroe Snyder and E. H. Tucker as a 40 acre townsite mapped from Whitson's homestead and wheat field. Selma boomed and first prospered here …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQL_frank-dusy_Selma-CA.html
Born in Canada in 1836, orphaned at age 8, he worked at numerous jobs before arriving in California in 1858. In his 40 years here he pioneered in photography, discovered Tehipite Valley and other prominent Sierra features. He led construction of t…
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