Easton Series Fun Facts

The gold seekers were called the “forty-niners.” They traveled by ship and covered wagon.

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The Gold Rush lasted from 1848 to 1855. 300,000 people traveled from the east and other nations to “make it rich.”

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Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, Cal. on January 24, 1848, the start of the California Gold Rush.

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The United Kingdom was the first to issue official ID’s during WWI. The first California driver’s license was issued in 1913.

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The Easton Angels have uncovered a historical mystery in their next adventure. Where will their curiosity lead them?

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Fresno County is the number 1 agricultural county in the nation. Crops include raisins, figs, nuts, melons, grains, rice and vegetables

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The Fresno Scrapper was used by the US Army in WWI on the European front. It was used to dig the Panama Canal and sold worldwide.

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A Scottish blacksmith settled in Fresno and was the inventor of the “Fresno Scrapper,” an early horse-drawn bulldozer.

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After the first well, the same man dug out a 40 ft pool under the Valley's hardpan and opened a cellar bar under his hotel. Fresno's first cooling center.

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Water was brought into the Valley by train. A restaurant owner dug the first well by hand with a pick, crowbar and a shovel.

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Fresno was a rough town in a barren countryside. Irrigation and grape growing brought prosperity.

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EASTON SUMMER - Pre-teens Jason Bonham, Eric Lane and Kati McClellan, affectionately known as the angels, have known personal tragedy, Jason, recently orphaned, Eric abandoned by his mother, and Kati, left with strangers, are thrown together at the Sanders Ranch in Easton, California.  While spending the summer together and guided by Shelley Sanders, the angels explore Easton and work together with their new friends to solve S. West Avenue mystery. They learn about friendship and love while making a home during the long, hot Easton Summer.

EASTON HARVEST - Jason Bonham, Eric Lane and Sonja Bettencourt, affectionately referred to as “angels” by the Sanders, make friends with the new “kid on the block,” 14 year old Lauren Russell and her widowed father, Alan.  Strange things are happening in the South West Avenue neighborhood. While the angels, Lauren and new friends work through the mysteries, Lauren and her father come to realize love has many shapes.

EASTON HOLIDAY - Jason, Eric and Jonathan were on their best behavior; after all, Christmas was only a month away. What were they going to do? Every time something happened at school, one of them was called into the Principal’s office because you know, guilt by association. If one of the angels was causing mischief, they all were. Someone was going out of their way to frame the angels. They knew they weren’t the ones vandalizing the school, but the Principal, the Vice Principal, well, all the teachers thought they were the school bandits. And now Aunt Marian and Uncle Mike were beginning to believe the lies. Their only hope was that Deputy Jerry and Shelley would discover the truth and unmask the West Fresno Middle School Bandit.

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The City of Fresno was incorporated in 1885 and grew.

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Dutch, Italian, French and Swiss immigrants put roots down in the Valley and planted vineyards.

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Fresno's first general store was a tent pitched next to Fresno Station, the recent site of the old Greyhound station.

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The town of Millerton was the first county seat of Fresno County. It was moved to Fresno so the town could have access to the railroad.

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The railroad named the first station "Fresno Station" after the grove of ash trees along the river. Fresno means white ash in Spanish.

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Fresno was different from other California cities; it did not get its start with the 1848 gold rush. When the gold slowed, the San Joaquin Valley was used to graze cattle.

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Dutch explorers settled Fresno in the 1860s; Fresno still was not considered a town until the railroad came through the San Joaquin Valley.

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The Central Pacific Railroad workers laid out the town of Fresno. The first station was built on what is now downtown Fresno.

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The first explorers never considered settling in what is now Fresno. They considered the San Joaquin Valley uninhabitable.