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By Jeff Benziger

Nestled the place the San Joaquin Valley starts off rolling into the Sierra Nevada foothills, Waterford is steeped in a wealthy historical past. From its scenic Tuolumne River hall, early gold seekers and tourists in untamed valuable California forded the summer time circulation right here or crossed swollen iciness flows via ferry. Waterford used to be initially named Bakersville for founder William W. Baker, who arrived by way of lined wagon within the 1850s. The fertile soil supplied reliable farming and prosperity for disenchanted gold seekers. while an inventive gravity irrigation method used to be brought within the Nineties, farms thrived, drawing households, companies, and church buildings. Rowdy saloons in short flourished sooner than stalwart voters drove them out. Waterford�s courageous first settlers, farmers, and businessmen made their marks right here, and incorporated such visionaries because the Rudi brothers, longtime meat purveyors whose Waterford offspring incorporated Oakland A�s baseball legend Joe Rudi.

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