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Hanford, California

Kings County · Population 57,990 · Card no. 10160

The Kings County seat, with a courthouse square and a preserved Chinese alley from its railroad days.

China Alley's Taoist temple, from 1893, is preserved.
The town is named for a Southern Pacific paymaster.
The Mussel Slough tragedy, a deadly 1880 land dispute with the railroad, happened nearby.

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