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Shafter Pioneers Camp Little and Lopez Named Streets
Local notes honor W B and Saul Camp and Thurston Little for shaping Shafter. Camp brothers introduced cotton research and helped establish the US Experimental Station. Saul Camp’s family built a multi venture farm. Little, known as The Town Tinker, helped grow Shafter and Lopez Street honors Steve Lopez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Shafter Historical Society
Georgette Kadhel Askew
Camp Avenue
Camp Court
W.B
Saul Camp
South Carolina
W.B. Camp
USDA
Kern County Land Company
Dick Stansbury
California
Saul
L.A
Camp
Nellie
Jim
Willene
Little
Lopez
Steve
Lerdo
Mexico
1 Calvary Division
Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army
Co.d
Francis
Shafter High School
Lucio
Louie
Mathilda Pineda
Kern County
Little Street
Thurston “Tv
T.V
Harry Greenshaw
Fairbanks-Morse
Five Points
Don Little
Don
Butch
Christine
Bakersfield
Business Men’s Association
Steve Lopez