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9,189
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$46,980
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America/Los_Angeles
93268
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Taft, CA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Taft a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Taft Home page. The Taft Home page provides as much information as possible on Taft. Knowing Taft’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Taft’s Home page, you will also find Taft’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Taft has a population of 9189. 57.3% of Taft’s inhabitants are Male, and 42.7 are female. 36.3% of Taft is married and 52.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $186,908, and the average rent is $783. Household median income in Taft is $46,980, and the individual median income is $20,333. Taft’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.1%), Hispanic(33.1%), Multiple(9.4%), Other(3.8%), Asian(3.4%), Black(2%), Native(0.3%), Pacific(0.1%).
Today, the railroad—originally built to export crude oil and import drinking water—is gone, but the area still has a significant oil industry presence. A private prison, Taft Correctional Institution, operated by Management & Training Corporation under contract to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, is located on Cadet Road south of town.
There is a large, modern high school serving area students. The West Kern Oil Museum, at 1168 Wood Street, has vast holdings including pumps, fire apparatus, trucks, a historic wooden derrick, photos, models, and extensive displays of local history back to Indian times. The town's newspaper, the Midway Driller, was reputed to be the oldest daily newspaper in California.
About 2005, the Daily Midway Driller became the Midway Driller and is now published on Tuesdays and Fridays. The town's second weekly newspaper, the Taft Independent, began publication on July 4, 2006. The city, which has experienced the ups and downs of the boom and bust cycle of the oil industry, has recently experienced new development and business growth with the opening of a three-story, 70-room Taft Inn Best Western Plus Hotel, the opening of a craft brewery, Black Gold Brewing Company, in the historic downtown on Center Street, the reopening of the historic Taft Fox Theater, the opening of The Bank, a bar and grill in the historic Taft State Bank Building, a new Taco Bell restaurant and many more "mom and pop" small businesses.
The city owns a 46-acre former BNSF railroad property in the center of town which features the West Kern Oilworker's Monument, a 37 feet (11 m) tall bronze sculpture that features several human figures displayed on an oil derrick by artist Benjamin Victor that was paid for with donations from local residents, visitors and several oil companies.
The railroad property is part of a redevelopment project that the city is using to attract new businesses, housing and commercial office space. A shooting occurred at Taft Union High School on January 10, 2013. A 16-year-old student at the school entered a science classroom with a 12 gauge shotgun and fired shots inside the class.
Another 16-year-old student was hit and critically injured. Another student was shot at and not injured. A teacher suffered minor head injuries when struck by a pellet. Fortunately, the shotgun was loaded with birdshot. A campus supervisor asked the shooter to surrender, which he did, and he was taken into custody.
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