Donna L Dolf: January 2018

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

River Park opened in 1996 and consists of The Marketplace, The Shops at River Park and the Chick-Fil-A and In-N-Out Burger shopping center.

Fashion Fair Mall opened in 1970.

Manchester Center opened in 1955 and is currently being remodeled.

The Fresno County Public Library houses books, ebooks, music, movies, magazines and newspapers.

The Fresno County Public Library has over 1.1 million books.

The Central Library in downtown Fresno opened in 1959 and serves as the headquarters for the Fresno County Public Library.

Miss Sarah E McCardle was the first County Librarian.

The Fresno County Public Library has 34 branches.

The Fresno County Public Library was founded in 1910.

Traffic will be reintroduced onto Fulton Mall in 2017.

Fulton Mall was originally called J Street and was renamed after Fulton G Berry’s death in 1910.

Fulton Mall was a six-block pedestrian mall dedicated in Fresno in 1964.

Fulton Mall property owners voted not to list Fulton Mall on the National Register.

Fulton Mall was nominated in 2008 to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill is a National Historic Landmark. Who knew?

There are 31 historic sites in Fresno including the Old Fresno Water Tower, the Tower Theatre and the Forestiere Underground Gardens.