(Stockton, CA) – Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is holding its annual celebratory Rededication event on Saturday, ...
The town’s founder escaped from slavery and went on to become the highest-ranking Black officer in the U.S. Army.
The Amtrak trip connects travelers to the only California town founded, financed, and governed by African Americans.
Allensworth, a farmworker town of about 500 people in California’s San Joaquin Valley, sits at the edge of an area called the Tulare Lake basin, a patchwork of scrub brush and irrigated farmland ...
Residents of Bakersfield and communities up and down the valley are invited to celebrate Juneteenth at Allensworth, the first California town founded, financed and governed by Black settlers. And ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Just about 45 minutes north of Bakersfield you'll find the historical state park of Allensworth - considered to be the only California town founded, financed and governed ...
BANGING GOING TO BE GOING ON. OH, YEAH. WE’VE GOT TO START WARMING UP THE NECK NOW. STATE HISTORIC PARK THAT CELEBRATES CALIFORNIA’S AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY WILL BE REDEDICATED NEXT MONTH. AMTRAK ...
Docent Emmett Harden jokes on a recent winter day about many visitors viewing Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park as a “weed patch” in the rural southern San Joaquin Valley. But step inside the ...
Take an adventure back in time this Saturday with a trip to Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. In recognition of California State Parks Adventure Pass Day, the park 45 miles north of Bakersfield ...