ia was away visal from the conflict, but tensions were high. ommen shares a piece of visalia s 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 visalia s 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
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 c-span3. 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? i m 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 i m sure a lot of people outside of cal
Thousands of people in metro Nashville don’t have a war place to eat or sleep for the holidays and one organization is continuing a tradition to help those who are without a home.