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Desolate Shafter’s Early Growth and Desert Trade Tales
Descriptions trace Shafter near Kern County’s Poso Ranch, from early vaqueros to desert trade hubs. It notes Walter Haag, Maples District growers, a hotel built by Kern County Land Co. for land buyers, a 70 to 60 acre land price, and the 1914 street layout Central avenue. The account covers post office fights, a tennis court, first weddings, school beginnings, and early crops from potatoes to cotton.
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Kern County Land Co
Teegnee
Santa Fe Railroad
Walter Haag
Pat Shafter
Poso Ranch
Kern County
Hitchcock’s
Shafter
William R. Shafter
Central Avenue
T. W. Little
Hockheimers
Brooks
Harriet McManus
Charlie
Scaroni Place
Jett McManus
Johnson-Neuman
Heck Bros. Re
Ony
Bill Camp
Camp
Shomate
Washington
C. A. Barlow
Democratic Central Committee
Woodrow Wilson
U.S
Shemate
First J
Farm Bureau
Hazel Burns
Richland
F.E. Mannel
Mannel Tract
E. A. Combs