Fresno City Historical Markers

Map of California State Historical Marker Locations in the City of Fresno

Fresno City Historical Markers

Fresno Schools Site Of First Junior College In California Constructed in 1895, the school was known as Fresno High School from 1895-1921. Established as the first junior college of California in 1910, in 1911... [click for more] Fresno General Interest Forestiere Underground Gardens Here, beneath the hot, arid surface of the San Joaquin Valley, Baldasare Forestiere (1879-1946) began in the early 1900s to sculpt a fantastic retreat... [click for more] Fresno Assembly Center, Temporary Detention Camps For Japanese Americans This memorial is dedicated to over 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined at the Fresno Fairgrounds from May to October 1942. This was... [click for more] The Fresno Free Speech Fight of the Industrial Workers of the World At the corner of Mariposa and I Streets, from October 1910 to March 1911, the Industrial Workers of the World fought for the right of free speech in t... [click for more]