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In the foreground is the "long shed" or livery of the Farmers' Hotel that was located on the corner of Crane Avenue and Front Street. The hotel provided shelter, food and water for their customers' horses. In the photo one horse and a milk cow stand in the shed. Center Street runs behind the shed and in front of the Crane ranch while the road to the left of the shed became Crane Avenue. The prosperity of the Crane family is indicated by their large residence surrounded by two large barns, three windmills indicating three water wells, two pump houses and multiple other small buildings where hired people lived and where horses, cows, pigs and chickens were kept. Notice directly behind the house, with some shrubs in between, the very small building that was the outhouse (toilet). A hitching rail is on either side of the house just outside the white picket fence where visitors on horseback could hitch (tie) their horse's reins to keep it from wandering while the owner was inside the house. Note the tree saplings and their pole supports that were planted along the fences on both sides of the road.
Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)--History Barns--California--Turlock Dwellings--California--Turlock Stables--California--Turlock Two-story houses--California--Turlock Crane, Stephen
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