Fresno Fun Facts

Millerton Lake is a state park. You can boat, hike, bicycle, fish and camp. Pack up that picnic basket and let’s get cool at the lake!

Fresno Fun Facts

Chaparral is vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes.

Fresno Fun Facts

Many trees grow in the hills around Millerton lake including blue oak, live oak, gray pine, manzanita and chaparral.

Fresno Fun Facts

Many smaller animals can be found at Millerton Lake including foxes, badgers, skunks, raccoons, opossums, rabbits and squirrels.

Fresno Fun Facts

Millerton Lake is home to many birds and mammals including golden eagles, waterfowl, deer, bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions and many other smaller animals.

Fresno Fun Facts

Millerton Lake is the winter home for the bald eagles after they migrate over 1600 miles from Canada.

Fresno Fun Facts

California is called the “Golden State” not because of the gold rush, but because of its golden grasses in the summer.

Fresno Fun Facts

Camp Barbour, where the peace treaty was signed ending the Mariposa Indian war in 1851, is now at the bottom of Millerton Lake.

Fresno Fun Facts

The first courthouse in the valley was built in 1867. Millerton Courthouse still stands at Mariner’s Point at Millerton Lake.

Easton Series fun facts

Millerton Lake was created by a dam across the San Joaquin River in 1944.

Easton Series

Don't miss your chance to pick up a little summer reading and discover the S. West Avenue investigative team.

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 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: mysterious black cats, changing scarecrows, and a missing green car. Follow the angels, Lauren and new friends to work through the mysteries.

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.

Easton Series Fun Facts

Gold was first discovered in the mountains north of Los Angeles in 1842; Sutter’s discovery in 1848 eclipsed the smaller find in LA.

Easton Series Fun Facts

Road and towns were built in California during the gold rush. California became a state in 1850.

Easton Series Fun Facts

Hundreds of ships were abandoned in San Francisco; ship crews rushed off to “get rich” panning for gold. The abandoned ships were turned into warehouses, stores, hotels and even a jail.

Easton Series Fun Facts

San Francisco became a boomtown. It increased in population from 200 in 1846 to over 36,000 by 1852.

Easton Series Fun Facts

Gold was taken from streams and rivers by panning. When panning didn’t produce any more gold, mining companies were formed.

Easton Series Fun Facts

At first, the forty-niners found gold nuggets on the ground and they just picked them up.

Easton Series fun facts

Gold seekers were Americans as well as from Latin America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Easton Series fun facts

The forty-niners were also called “Argonauts”; they traveled mostly by sea around the tip of South America, taking 5 to 8 months to reach San Francisco.