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Historical Society, Inc.
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Atwater, CA 95301
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| 1850 |
John
Mitchell came to town |
| 1856
|
Marshall
Atwater came to town |
| 1884
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The
Bloss Family came to town |
| 1888
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Atwater
became a town |
| 1890
|
Ralston
Family came to town |
| 1897 |
Population
100 people |
| 1903
|
Mitchell
School was built at Atwater Blvd. /Winton Way- 60 to 65
students |
| 1906
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First
Automobile in Atwater |
| 1910
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Dr.
Kinney becomes Atwater’s first doctor |
| 1911
|
Atwater
Signal newspaper premieres |
| 1912
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Big
fire in town burns down almost every building
Bloss Block constructed
Electricity came to town |
| 1913
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Atwater
gets paved roads
St. Anthony's Church built at Drakeley and Winton Way |
| 1916
|
Ticket
citations become law if you did not have a lantern hanging
from your Buggy at night |
| 1917
|
E.
A. Heller buys a drug store |
| 1920
|
Atwater
has another big fire |
| 1921
|
George
Bloss, Sr. dies
First telephone service (Carrie Peck remains manager for
21 years) |
| 1922
|
24
hour phone service
Freitas Bros purchases Joe Vierra's Martha Washington store
and renames it
The Atwater Cash Grocery
Atwater is now Incorporated city
George Bloss becomes our first mayor |
| 1923
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First
Firehouse is built on Cedar between 4th and 5th |
| 1926
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Women's
Club House built |
| 1930
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Population
of Atwater is 912, according to census |
| 1936
|
Broke
ground for Bloss Hospital |
| 12/01/1941
|
The
new post office breaks ground
Castle Air Force Base opens |
| 05/20/1949
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New
curfew law |
| 07/07/1955
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First
B52 arrives at Castle |
| 03/14/1957 |
New
section of newspaper added - "Meet the Merchants"
every week |
| 04/18/1957
|
Atwater
Castle Parade |
| 05/09/1957
|
Swimming
pool “Plunge” article discusses its history
Winton Cemetery history |
| 06/13/1957
|
Blue
Seal Dairy |
| 07/07/1957 |
Pentecost
feeds 7,000 |
| 07-08/1957
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Pictures
of little league players, local dairies and farms |
| 12/09/1957 |
St.
Anthony's school breaks ground |
| 07/13/1961
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First
twins ever born at Bloss Hospital |
| 08/24/1961
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New
phone prefixes |
| 09/14/1961
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Pentecost
list of Queens old and new |
| 08/17/1962
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President
Kennedy at Castle for 14 minutes |
| 03/07/1963
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New
Aileen Colburn School opens |
| 04/04/1963
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George
Bloss, Jr. dies
Entire estate of Arthur Wilkenson given to Bloss Hospital
$13,728.14 |
| 05/28/1963
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Lions
Club planted 30 Ash trees on Bellevue Rd. in 30 minutes |
| 07/01/1963
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Atwater
gets a new zip code |
| 08/08/1963
|
Wassums
and the noon whistle
Bellevue Road turned into a four lane |
| 11/01/1963
|
Elmwood
8 turns into 358 prefix |
| 11/07/1963
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New
Post Office opens at a cost of $95,000 |
| 08/29/1968
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Atwater
Fruit Exchange celebrates 30 year anniversary |
| 03/09/1983
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Queen
Elizabeth II visits to Atwater |
| 07/25/1985
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Mennonite
stories
Cardoza and Amaral come to America stories |
| 1988
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Inserts
on Atwater Businesses |
| 03/25/1998
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Ugly
Truck Contest |
07/23/1999 |
Bomb
scare shut down Highway 99 |
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