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06-58240. GNIS feature IDs. 1652779, 2411470. Website. www.ci.porterville.ca.us. Porterville is a city at the base of Southern Sierra Nevada mountains on the eastern side of San Joaquin Valley, in Tulare County, California, United States. It is part of the Visalia-Porterville metropolitan statistical area.
It was the fall of 1858 when the Butterfield Overland Stage Line established a stage stop at Goodhue’s Crossing near the Tule River, a site that would eventually become known as the City of Porterville.
The town incorporated in 1902, as miners moved into the area to extract magnetite ore, and the Chamber of Commerce was formed in 1907. A City Manager-Council form of government was adopted in 1926, and a Charter was adopted. The City has grown from a community of 5,000 persons in 1920.
Once considered a hidden gem, Porterville has now been dubbed as one of the most desirable and popular country towns in the Western Cape – attracting artisans, entrepreneurs, retirees, and families who have triggered a groundswell of growth as new tourism and lifestyle offerings spring up in and around the town – in turn drawing a growing ...
When the City of Porterville was incorporated in 1902, John Howell (pictured left) was hired as the first City Marshall. John Willis served under him as constable and Billy Maston and Lewis Zigler were deputy constables.
The known history of Porterville began in 1820 when British settlers descended upon the promising land of the Western Cape. ©Chris Daly. Dutch Reformed Church Porterville. One such settler, Frederick John Owen, is accredited the honour of establishing the town of Porterville in 1863.
Less than twenty years later, Porterville became an official town in 1902. At the same time, the area began to be mined for magnetite ore. The Porterville Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1907.
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