Fort Miller
Title |
Fort Miller |
Physical description |
8.4 cm. x 16.5 cm. |
Notes |
Front: This Block House, erected in 1851, the first unit in th effort, established as protection, is here shown in a photograph taken in 1922. Back: Fort Miller is Fresno's earliest and most notable historic site, now buried beneath the waters of Lake Millerton, reservoir of the U.S. Central Valley Project on the San Joaquin River. Fort Miller and the neighboring townsite of Millerton, the first seat of Fresno County, were located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada twenty- five miles northeast of the City of Fresno. The Block House, the first building in the Fort, in this year 1944 has been rescued and re-erected in Roeding Park, at Fresno, through activity of Mayor Z.S. Leymel and a Citizens Committee. |
Object type |
Postcard |
Item number |
O-3 |
Digital collection |
Woodward Postcards |
Physical collection |
Woodward Postcards |
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