Resources - Timeline
1889
Public gas lighting
Bakersfield burns down
1884
First black colonists in Kern County
1880
Commercial apple orchards in Tehachapi
1876
Southern Pacific railroad completed the "Tehachapi loop"
1875
First earthquake
1874
County seat moved to Bakersfield from Havilah
Volunteer fire department was formed
1873
Bakersfield incorporated
1869
Bakersfield founded by Colonel Thomas Baker
Town of Woody was founded
1866
Havilah became our first county seat
1863
Colonel Thomas Baker moved to Bakersfield
1862
Kern River floods destroying many mining operations along banks
First cotton grown in Kern County
1860
Christian Bohna build the first permanent house on the site of future Bakersfield
1857
U.S. Camel Corps reached Fort Tejon, under the command of E.F. Beale
1854
Fort Tejon built
1853
Gold discovered in Greenhorn Gulch on Greenhorn Mountain
1850
California became the 31st state
1700 and earlier, Yokuts lived in Kern County
1776 Father Garces visited future Bakersfield
1853 Gold discovered in Greenhorn Gulch
1854 Fort Tejon built
1866 County Seat at Havilah
1869 Bakersfield founded by Colonel Thomas Baker
1889 Bakersfield burns down
1877 First oil wells drilled in Kern County
1904 Beale clock tower built
1910 Lakeview gusher blew. Oil boom in Kern County
1949 Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound at Edwards air force base
1952 Earthquake in Bakersfield and Tehachapi
1981 First space shuttle landed at Edwards Airforce Base
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