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CORCORAN, Calif. Sixth Avenue used to cut through miles of farmland. Now, the road has disappeared under muddy water, its path marked by sodden telephone poles that protrude from the swelling lake. Water laps just below the windows of a lone farmhouse that sits alongside the submerged route.
Kings County’s story dates well before the drawing and redrawing of county lines, the rise of a dairy industry and decline of a wool industry, the planting and picking of