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Lathrop, CA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Lathrop  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Lathrop Home page. The Lathrop Home page provides as much information as possible on Lathrop. Knowing Lathrop’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lathrop’s Home page, you will also find Lathrop’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lathrop has a population of 23863. 48.7% of Lathrop’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.3 are female. 52.6% of Lathrop is married and 79.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $381,681, and the average rent is $1,751. Household median income in Lathrop is $90,179, and the individual median income is $31,338. Lathrop’s Ethnic is the following: White(42.8%), Hispanic(40.1%), Asian(26.3%), Other(12%), Multiple(10.4%), Black(6.7%), Native(1.3%), Pacific(0.5%).


Lathrop was platted when the transcontinental railroad was extended to that point around 1868. A post office has been in operation at Lathrop since 1871. The city was named for Jane Stanford, née Lathrop, wife of Leland Stanford.On September 6, 1869, four months after the golden spike ceremony of the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit, the San Joaquin Railroad Bridge at Mossdale crossing at Lathrop was finished by Western Pacific.


This actually completed the last link of the transcontinental railroad to the Pacific coast with the first through train from Sacramento arriving that evening at the Alameda Wharf in San Francisco Bay. On August 14, 1889, former Chief Justice of California David S. Terry assaulted United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen J.


Field, at the train station in Lathrop. Field's bodyguard, United States Marshal David Neagle (formerly assigned to Tombstone, Arizona), shot and killed Terry. The events led to the United States Supreme Court decision In re Neagle, which granted immunity from state prosecution to federal officers acting within the scope of their federal authority.


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