TULE RIVER STAGE STATION - View this location on map - Here Peter Goodhue operated an emigrant trail stopping place on the bank of the Tule River from 1854 until the river changed its course in 1862. This became a Butterfield Overland and mail stage station, 1858-61. It was kept in 1860 by R. Porter Putnam, who in 1864 founded Porterville. N Main St and W Henderson Ave, Porterville, California Historical

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