To: chadsworth
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 couldnt come to agreement so the case involving two other women was dismissed.
Although there were no trees around Clovis in the 1890s, 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 worlds 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 couldnt keep anyone in, but the food was so tasty that the jailbirds returned every night to eat.
39 posted on
08/09/2002 7:20:35 AM PDT by
lodwick
To: lodwick
Here's amazing facts from Clovis: Very interesting --
TIDBITS FROM LODWICK'S COLLEGE OF LITTLE KNOWN KNOWLEDGE!
To: lodwick
Wonderful, fun, cute facts about Clovis! I live about 35 miles from there and I didn't know most of those things. LOL.
You are a lot of fun, lodwick. Thanks for all of the interesting things you bring to the Finest thread. :-)
To: lodwick
Clovis's Famous Haunted House It is, and has been featured on a few national TV shows. Check out their website it is very interesting.
Ladyinred was raised just around the corner from this spooky place....no kidding.......
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