Edward and Billie Ruminer started Ruminer's Produce in 1957. At 927 W. Inyo Ave., Tulare, CA, it was there that on their first day of...

Tulare's women flocked to the famous and stylish millinery shops owned and operated by Mrs. Olive Lawler (Oli). Her first shop was in the...

In 1885, the Town of Tulare became the first institution of higher learning in the Southern and Central San Joaquin Valley. Tulare's...

Had it not been for the Southern Pacific Railroad, there might never have been a Tulare. The Tulare area was mostly a barren stretch of...

If you asked a Tularean of 1939 if their city would soon become one of the busiest training grounds for the nation's pilots, a skeptical...

Long before the Tulare Union High School Auditorium (recently renamed the Community Auditorium), the Tulare Theater, the Veterans...

In 1872, the Southern Pacific Railroad extended its tracks to the south, and the Town of Tulare began to thrive. The following year, the...

CONGREGATIONAL Tulare was only one year old in 1873 and boasted only 25 citizens when the town's first church, the Congregational, was...

The oldest surviving public building in Tulare was built in 1882, at 88 West Tulare Avenue, by the Southern Pacific Railroad as a...

A student can find a valuable resource for learning Tulare's unique history in the town's early newspapers' files. Our favorite city was...

In 1922, the Hotel Tulare doors opened to the public with Charles L. Kennedy, secretary of the Tulare Board of Trade, as the first...

When the Yokuts Indian Nation Inhabited the great San Joaquin Valley, scholars purported Tulare Lake to be the largest freshwater lake...

More than 1,500 persons walked, drove, or were chauffeured to the heart of Tulare for the gala grand opening of the New Tulare Theater,...

When you think of Tagus Ranch, do you think of it as part of Visalia? No! One thinks of the historic Tagus Ranch as Tulare. Ask Tulare...