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Great to get to know you! Here's amazing facts from Clovis:

Enough Concrete was used to construct the Friant Dam, that it could have paved a three-lane Highway all the way from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

The first all women jury couldn’t come to agreement so the case involving two other women was dismissed.

Although there were no trees around Clovis in the 1890’s, it became a major lumbering town.

Trees were dragged behind wagons coming down the mountain roads to help slow them down.

The town of Friant has held seven names. Mugginsville, Jonesville, Jones Ferry, Converse Ferry, Hamptonville, Pollasky, and Friant.

One pioneer family crossed the same stream 23 times to get to Clovis from Los Angeles.

Friant Dam is so wide that you could put three Queen Mary Ocean Liners end to end.

It takes 556 honeybees to fly over 35,000 miles to make only one pound of honey.

The Clovis Independent Newspaper was started by the world’s oldest active newspaperwoman, “May Case”, in 1918.

Dinkey Creek was named for a little dog, “Dinkey”.

The Old Fort Millerton Jail was so crude that it couldn’t keep anyone in, but the food was so tasty that the jailbirds returned every night to eat.