Stockton
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- Names
Stockton
Tuleburg
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on San Joaquin River; grew rapidly as miners' supply point during 1849 Gold Rush; laid out & renamed after fire of 1850; processing center for crops of Central Valley; University of the Pacific, founded in San Jose in 1851, moved here in 1924.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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