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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AG_arlington-house_Bakersfield-CA.html
Former site of two-storyArlington Houseopened December 26, 1874. Rebuilt tothree stories after fire of 1889and operated until 1915. Redesignedin 1916 to two-story business andstore building.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AF_alphonse-weill-residence_Bakersfield-CA.html
This is the original site of the residence of pioneer merchant Alphone Weill, wife Henrietta, and three children, Irma, Blanche, and Lawrence. The house, built in 1882-3, and now standing in Pioneer Village, was constructed by Alexis Godey, former…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AE_livermore-and-chester-store_Bakersfield-CA.html
Site of Livermore and Chester Store, first business establishment in Bakersfield, an adobe structure built in 1865. Purchased by H. H. Fish in 1886. Destroyed in the fire of 1889. Rebuilt in 1890.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AD_bank-of-bakersfield_Bakersfield-CA.html
This site patented by Colonel Thomas Baker in 1867. Numerous individuals owned property until erection of Bank of Bakerfield in 1903. Replaced by present Bank of America buiding in 1930.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AB_brocks-department-store_Bakersfield-CA.html
This site was deeded by Col Thomas Baker to Agnes Stine in 1871. Dave Hirshfeld ran the Pioneer Store here in 1899. Succeeded by Otto Belau in the same year. In 1904 the business was sold to Hochheimer and Co. After the 1919 fire the structure was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PT_fages-zalvidea-trails_Bakersfield-CA.html
In 1772, Don Pedro Fages, first recorded non-Indian to visit the southern San Joaquin Valley, crossed this spot on his way from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. Near this point crossed Father Jos? Mar?a de Zalvidea in 1806, while accompanying the Rui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZG_kern-river-flour-mills_Bakersfield-CA.html
In 1871 Horatio P. Livermore and William Muehe built the Kern River Flour Mills on the Kern Island Canal. Muehe sold his interest to Fordyce Roper in 1874 and Livermore to James B. Haggin in 1879, who also acquired Roper's interest in 1884. The bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZI7_kern-county-land-company-building_Bakersfield-CA.html
In 1894, four years after the formation of the Kern County Land Company, the firm built an office building that demonstrated its "Faith in the Future" of Bakersfield. The structure with outside walls of cream colored pressed brick, trimmed with gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZHH_pablo-galtes-union-cemetery_Bakersfield-CA.html
Pablo Galtes facilitated the establishment of the Catholic community of Bakersfield in the early 1870's. The first Mass celebrated in Bakersfield was said in the back of Pablo's store located on 19th Street near Chester Avenue. (Eleven family memb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ09_standard-school_Bakersfield-CA.html
The discovery of oil near the Kern River in 1899 brought people to the area, creating a boomtown such as Oil Center, Oil City and Oildale.
The Standard School District was formed in 1909. Standard Oil Company donated five acres of land for a ne…