- Title
- Bishop, California. Fairground
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- Description
- Fairground at Bishop, California. Grandstands at right of photograph; judging tower at left. Automobiles, both parked and proceeding to fairground. Buildings in background. White Mountains are in the background. Title supplied by cataloger.
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- Format Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
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- Subject
- Automobiles; Fairs--California--Bishop; Buildings--Bishop--California
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- Note
- Located in the northern end of the one hundred mile long Owens Valley, Bishop, California, is named after Samuel A. Bishop, one of the first Anglo-American settlers there (1861). Originally known as Bishop Creek for the creek on which the original settlement grew, the Bishop Creek area provided beef and mutton for such mining towns as Aurora, Nevada, and Bodie, California. By 1864, Bishop Creek had a stage line; by 1883 the Carson and Colorado Railroad serviced the area. In 1889, Bishop Creek became Bishop, which incorporated in 1903. The purchase of farm and ranch land for the Los Angeles Aqueduct by the City of Los Angeles in the 1920s disrupted the local agrarian economy. Although agriculture persisted, Bishop's economy depended on tourism by the 1930s, which remains the economic mainstay of the town. In 2000, Bishop had a population of 3,575 people.
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- Collection
- J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Box 5, Sleeve 16
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- Type
- ["Photographs"]
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- Language
- eng
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