The Southern Pacific Railroad reached Sumner (now East Bakersfield), several miles northeast of downtown Bakersfield, in 1874 (it had bypassed the city of Bakersfield because of a right-of-way dispute between city and railroad officials), and the Santa Fe Railway was linked to Bakersfield in 1898. ![]() ![]() Bakersfield was an agricultural trade centre for the mines of the Sierra Nevada and the Owens Valley in the 1870s. Located in the San Joaquin Valley, it was founded along the Los Angeles and Stockton road in 1869 by Thomas Baker, who reclaimed swamplands along the nearby Kern River.
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