Kern east from G Street, Fresno Calif, 1890 (46/63)

Kern east from G Street, Fresno Calif, 1890

The flooded Union Ice Company warehouse is located just south of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The photographer was on G Street, looking northeast towards Kern. The sign in the background says “Planing Mill”, probably Madary’s Planing Mill located on H Street and Kern. Floods threatened to wipe out Fresno every winter owing to its location as the sink of four creeks of Dry Creek, Red Banks, Dog Creek, and Fancher Creek.

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