Stephens Boat Reunion
Celebrating 100th Birthday of Dick Stephens Stephens Brothers Boats is an iconic name in classic wooden boats. On the weekend of September 12th, what is
Cyndy Green
September 14, 2020
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Machines, New Crops, and Immigrants
Stimulate a Culture of Towns The gold fever, which motivated travel to Sacramento and Stockton after 1849, began to wane by 1860 as placer mining
Robert Benedetti
September 10, 2020
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Little Trunk of Horrors
Although one of Stockton’s most intriguing court cases took place 114 years ago, it had all the elements that make today’s cable news networks salivate:
Tod Ruhstaller
August 26, 2020
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Visionaries and Miners
Come to the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta 1830-1860 Traveling the Delta rivers did, of course, have their dangers. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), writing for the
Robert Benedetti
May 29, 2020
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Chin Lung and the Great Western Potato Mart
GEORGE SHIMA, THE JAPANESE IMMIGRANT who became known as the “Potato King” of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was profiled in a prior Soundings Magazine article
David Stuart
May 7, 2020
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Stockton’s China Trade and Sperry’s Global Empire
Editor’s Note – This is the first in a series of SAN JOAQUIN STORIES produced by the San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum Many
Phillip Merlo
April 17, 2020
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Isleton Spam Festival
The Meat That Survived a Flood Never. Take. Life. Too. Seriously. Ever. Attracting locals and out-of-towners alike, the Isleton Spam Festival is a quintessential Delta
Cyndy Green
February 21, 2020
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George Shima
The Well-known “Potato King” and Japanese Leader In the 1920s, Shima had to dismantle his farming empire due to the Alien Land Laws. He then
David Stuart
February 12, 2020
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Down to the Sea
Ocean-going ships smack in the middle of prime agricultural land? No ocean in sight? With 234 ships calling on the Port of Stockton in 2019,
Rich Turner
February 4, 2020
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Kango Mitori: Japanese Truck Farmer
Part Two In Part One, we introduced Japanese immigrant Kango Mitori and followed his family through their establishment in 1931 of a small “truck patch”
David Stuart
November 22, 2019
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