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Kern County 1940s - Vintage Poster:
$19.95

Theseare simply the best posters available! You will be thrilled with the imagequality, vivid colors, fine paper, and unique subjects.This is an original imagethat has been transformed into a beautiful poster - available exclusively fromPosterzilla.

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Thisbeautifulreproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original 1940s brochure forKern County, located at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range,in Southern California.

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HISTORYOF KERN COUNTY

Spanishera

The area was claimed by the Spanish in 1769, and in 1772Commander Don Pedro Fages became the first European to enter it, from the southby way of the Grapevine Canyon.

Kern County was the site of the Battle of San Emigdio, inMarch 1824, between the Chumash Indians of the Santa Barbara Mission whorebelled against the Mexican government\'s taking over mission property andejecting the natives. This battle with Mexican forces from Monterey under thecommand of Carlos Carrillo took place at the canyon where San Emigdio Creekflows down San Emigdio Mountain and the Blue Ridge south of Bakersfield neartoday\'s Highway 166. It was a low-casualty encounter, with only four Indianskilled, and no Mexicans; the surviving Indians were pacified and brought backto Santa Barbara in June 1824 after a pursuit and negotiation in which manywere allowed to keep their arms for the return march over the mountains.

Americanera

The Havilah Court building was restored in the 1970s andnow serves as a museum. Photo circa 2007.

In the beginning, the area that became Kern County wasdominated by mining in the mountains and in the desert. In 1855 an attempt toform a county in the area was made when the California legislature took thesoutheastern territory of Tulare County on the west of the Sierra NevadaMountains for Buena Vista County, but it was never officially organized priorto 1859, when the enabling legislation expired. The south of Tulare County waslater organized as Kern County in 1866, with additions from Los Angeles and SanBernardino Counties. Its first county seat was in the mining town of Havilah,in the mountains between Bakersfield and Tehachapi.

The flatlands were considered inhospitable and impassableat the time due to swamps, lakes, tule reeds and diseases such as malaria. Thischanged when settlers started draining lands for farming and constructingcanals, most dug by hand by hired Chinese laborers. Within 10 years the valleysurpassed the mining areas as the economic center of the county, and the countyseat was moved as a result from Havilah to Bakersfield in 1874.

The discovery well of the Kern River Oil Field was dug byhand in 1899. Soon the towns of Oil City, Oil Center and Oildale came intoexistence.

Etymology

The county derives its name from the Kern River, which wasnamed for Edward Kern, cartographer for General John C. Frémont\'s 1845expedition, which crossed Walker Pass. The Kern River was originally named RioBravo de San Felipe by Father Francisco Garcés when he explored the area in1776.