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Visalia California News
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City of Visalia - Named for Nathaniel
Vise’s ancestral home - Visalia, Kentucky - Visalia began to add residents at a rapid
rate. The "Kern River Excitement" to the south in the mid 1850’s brought
many transient miners through the town on their way to the promised gold fields. However,
the gold failed to materialize and many returned to Visalia to live their lives. In 1858
the town received another boost. John Butterfield’s Overland Stage chose Visalia as a
timetable stop on the St. Louis to San Francisco route. Waterman Ormsby, a newspaper
correspondent for the New York Herald, was a passenger on the inaugural trip. The
reception given him by Visalians so impressed him that he wrote, "The rousing cheers
they gave us as we drove off...ought to be remembered in the history of the town, so I
here immortalize them".
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