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Kerman, CA - History
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Welcome to the Kerman Home page. The Kerman Home page provides as much information as possible on Kerman. Knowing Kerman’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kerman’s Home page, you will also find Kerman’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Kerman has a population of 14920. 50.2% of Kerman’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.8 are female. 49% of Kerman is married and 52.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $235,637, and the average rent is $1,025. Household median income in Kerman is $61,599, and the individual median income is $24,220. Kerman’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(81.7%), White(55.4%), Other(25.5%), Multiple(13.1%), Asian(4.4%), Native(1.3%), Black(0.3%).
Around 1891, the Southern Pacific Railroad constructed a new line between Tracy and Fresno. A watering tank and pump on that line was the beginning of Kerman, which was christened Collis in honor of the President of the road, Collis Potter Huntington. The first inhabitant, the caretaker of the pump and tank, kept the tank full of water for the thirsty engines with their long and lumbering trains.
After some months, he resigned his job, not because of the work, he said, but because it was too lonesome and he was tired of being a hermit. He said he never saw anyone but the train crews and they were always in too big a hurry to carry on a conversation. On August 3, 1892, the train bandits Chris Evans, John Sontag, and George Contant robbed a Southern Pacific train at Collis.
Contant went to Folsom State Prison for the crime. Evans and John Sontag became fugitives for ten months before they were captured in 1893 in what is called the Battle of Stone Corral. John Sontag died of his wounds in custody, and Chris Evans was also sent to Folsom upon his conviction of the crime.As a speculative venture, the old and very rich Bank of California purchased a huge tract of land in every County of California.
The arid, barren land around Kerman seemed to be a good venture, so that happened to be the allotment for Fresno County. After the death of its promoter, the bank became insolvent and its property was liquidated. The property here attracted the attention of two Los Angeles capitalists, William G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar, who saw a chance to purchase a plentiful water supply from the newly constructed Enterprise Canal, which had its source in the Kings River.
The men combined the first three letters of each of their names and christened the area "Kerman." They pitched the property to Scandinavians and Germans settled in the Midwest.The Collis post office was opened in 1894, closed in 1899, re-established in 1904, and renamed Kerman in 1906. Kerman incorporated in 1946.
The independent Kerman Telephone company retired its four-position manual telephone switchboard, described by a state telephone association as the last of its kind in California, in 1991.
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