Rail Museum Visalia Near Me

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The Tulare County Museum is located in Mooney Grove Park in Visalia, California. The park was established in 1909 and is the oldest county park in the state of California. Nestled in the oak preserve, the museum is just one of the attractions in the park that visitors can experience.

In 1934 Hugh Mooney and his family donated five-thousand dollars that was set aside to go toward the building of a museum in Mooney Grove Park, which was donated to the county by his parents. It wasn’t until 1947 that approval was given to begin construction of the museum on the specified site. In 1948 construction began on the museum with a dedication of corner stones by Dan McFadzean, dean of the Tulare County Bar Association, and was opened to the public on July 1, 1949. The Tulare County Historical Society ran the museum from 1948 to 1956, when the county took over responsibility of the museum.

The Tulare County Museum houses one of the largest Native American basket collections in California as well as artifacts of the pioneer era, agriculture equipment, restored buildings and many other treasures that tell the history of Tulare County. The newest addition to the museum is the History of Farm Labor and Agriculture Museum, where each cultural group and their contributions to farm labor and agriculture will be featured. The museum aims to educate residents of Tulare County as well as visitors on the importance of Tulare County and its history with the hope of recognizing the unique role it has played in California History.

4worldlovers: Welcome! The Historic Kingsburg Southern Pacific Railroad Depot is a project of Friends of the Historic Kingsburg Depot ("Friends"), a non-profit California Corporation. Friends mission is to maintain and operate the Kingsburg Depot site as an educational facility to benefit children of the San Joaquin Valley; and to discover, preserve, and make known the history and importance of the 1872 San Joaquin Valley Line of the Central Pacific Railroad. A historically accurate rehabilitation of the Depot site was completed in 2016. The success of the project is the result of a federal grant, additional private donations by more than 1,600 people, and 17,000 volunteer hours of labor...