Stockton, California - Holt Manufacturing Company, List of Stockton Landmarks, Stockton Unified School District, the Record, Port of Stockton (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Holt Manufacturing Company, List of Stockton landmarks, Stockton Unified School District, The Record, Port of Stockton, Weber Institute, Stockton - San Joaquin Street, Temple Israel, Samson Tractor, San Joaquin County Administration Building, Stockton Symphony, Haggin Museum, Stockton State Hospital, Stockton Waterfront Events Center. Excerpt: Stockton, the county seat of San Joaquin County, is the 4th-largest city in Central Valley. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as the 13th largest city in the state of California. The city is located in Northern California south of the state capital Sacramento and north of Modesto. Stockton is along Interstate 5, State Route 99 and State Route 4 amid the farmland of the California Central Valley. It is connected westward with San Francisco Bay by the San Joaquin River's 78-mile (126 km) channel, and is, with Sacramento, one of the state's two inland sea ports. In and around Stockton are thousands of miles of waterways and rivers that make up the California Delta. The city hosts the annual Asparagus Festival and is the location of Haggin Museum, an art and history museum built in Victory Park in 1931. The museum displays 19th and 20th century works of art and houses local historical exhibits. For much of the later 19th century, starting with the Gold Rush, Stockton was one of the largest cities in the state, for a while the third largest city. The Miwok Indians lived in the Central Valley among the delta's waterways, using them for food and transportation. The northern San Joaquin Valley was also the southern end of the Siskiyou Trail, a centuries-old footpath leading through the Sacramento Valley, over the Cascades, and onward to Oregon. When Captain Charles Maria Weber, a German immigrant, decided to try his hand at gold mining in late 1848, he so...