The Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889 was a conflagration in Bakersfield, California. The fire would burn for three hours and destroyed most of the town (later...
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County, California and the Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889. Despite this catastrophe, Spokane continued to grow; the fire set the stage for a building...
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in failure. 1889 – Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889, California, destroyed 196 buildings and killed 1 person. 1889 – The First Great Fire of Lynn, Massachusetts...
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Kern Electric Railway begins operating. 1889 July 7: Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889. Oil discovered. Bakersfield (Southern Pacific station) opens. 1904...
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The Great Seattle Fire ravages through the downtown area without any fatalities. July 7 – Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889 devastates Bakersfield, California...
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look of the city. The first was the Great Fire of 1889. Prior to the fire, most of the city was constructed out of wood. This allowed the fire to spread...
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Kevin McCarthy (category Bakersfield High School alumni)
McCarthy graduated from California State University, Bakersfield. He served two terms as a member of the California State Assembly before being elected...
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California State University, Chico (redirect from California State University, Chico's College of Communication and Education)
donated 8 acres (3.2 ha) of land from his cherry orchard. On July 4, 1888, the first cornerstone was laid. On September 3, 1889, doors opened for the 90...
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California oil and gas industry (category Economic history of California)
started an oil boom, and a forest of wooden derricks sprang up overnight on the flood plain just north of Bakersfield, a sleepy farm town known to most...
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Ten Percent Ring (category Outlaw gangs of the American Old West)
Milt Joyce (1847–1889), owner of the Oriental Saloon and chairman of Cochise County, Arizona, supervisors, was also seen as a leader of the Ten Percent...
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