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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XDM_kogetsu-do-historical_Fresno-CA.html
Kogetsu-Do
A Fresno landmark. Confectioner Kogetsu - Do has survived in the same location it has occupied for 99 Years. Sugimatsu Ikeda and his wife Sakino started the business in 1915 and were able to purchase this building on "F" Street in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HI3_john-charles-fremont_Fresno-CA.html
Fremont passed within sight of this spot on April 7, 1844. He is coming from the San Joaquin River to the Kings River with his mountain men guides, Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson and Alex Godey. Fremont described a vast prairie with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZST_china-alley_Fresno-CA.html
In 1874 600 people moved to what is now Fresno. Of those, 200 were Chinese, who made the brick and helped start the building of Fresno. A short time later, they were persuaded to settle west of the train tracks. They built an area of shops, which …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP4I_the-basque-hotel_Fresno-CA.html
[Marker mounted to the left of the entrance door.]This building is the first Basque Hotel built near the Central Pacific Railroad lines that brought many new immigrants to Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley.
It was one of several establishments …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIN0_easton-washington-union-high-school-district_Fresno-CA.html
[Side A:]EastonIn 1878, O.W. Easton and J.P. Whitney, San Francisco entrepreneurs, bought a total of 12 sections of land in this area (7680 acres), formed the Washington Irrigated Colony and began selling 20-acre farms. Allen T. Covell was the sup…