Lot of settlers. Many of the settlers came from southern states. They brought their believe system with them in most cases. History, a visalias number of the settlers were supportive of states rights and slavery because of where they came from. There was obviously a conflict. California was a free state. Visalia had split loyalties. Some were union supporters, some were southern sympathizers. In the middle of basically nowhere. We are about 200 miles north of los angeles. Sacramento. Uth of we were in the middle of what i would consider the frontier of california. That became important. A number of people used our area as hideouts, southern groupsizing gangs, and used the town and mountains east of town as hideouts in their travels. Forere pretty wide open some problems with conflict dealing with especially the civil war. At the same time, we had some native american issues. That theccupying lands native americans occupied. As a result, there were some hard feelings and some problems.
Ia was away visal from the conflict, but tensions were high. Ommen shares a piece of visalias history. Erry this town was so hostile, that it was almost like we fought the civil war on the streets of visalia. When visalia was founded in 1852, the town was attracting a lot of settlers. Many of the settlers came from southern states. They brought their belief system with them in most cases. Early on in visalias history, a number of the settlers were supportive of states rights and slavery because of where they came from. There was obviously a conflict. California was a free state. Visalia had split loyalties. Some were union supporters, some were southern sympathizers. In the middle of basically nowhere. We are about 200 miles north of los angeles. 200 miles south of sacramento. We were in the middle of what i would consider the frontier of california. That became important. A number of people used our area as hideouts, southern sympathizing gangs, and groups ps east of town and mountain
The founders of our nation. The founders created a government of we the people. Where depression and a great war, prices that could have led us in another direction. Fdr strengthened the charter. This weekend, on american. Istory tv on cspan3. This central californian city since halfway between stockton and los angeles. The first file soil of the sen. Kaine valley makes it the largest of the San Joaquin Valley makes it the largest agricultural area here. For the next hour we will hear from experts about the history of the city. Do you get the feeling that people realize how much comes out of this valley . Im not sure. On the east coast, i expected it would surprise a lot of people that california is the top producing agricultural state in the nation. 39 Million People live in this state now. When you think about the juxtaposition there with people, land development, the Natural Resource base, you think about all of that, and im sure a lot of people outside of california im not sure a l