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Excerpt from A California Pilgrimage: Being an Account of the Observance of the Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of Bishop Kip's First Missionary Journey Through the San Joaquin Valley Together With Bishop Kip's Own Story of the Event Commemorated
Clashes between the savages and the pioneers occasioned the planting of two army posts in this region: Fort Tejon in the pass which afforded exit from the San Joaquin Valley into Southern California and Fort Miller on the San Joaquin River, guarding the approaches to the Southern Mines. Sub stantial adobe buildings were erected by the government at each place, and garrisoned with a company of artillery. When the Indians, beaten in a decisive battle, sued for peace, thetreaty, to which the Chieftains of the several bands afiixed their mark, was ratified on a plateau just above Fort Miller.
Between Stockton at the mouth of the Valley, and Los Angeles in the South, the only settlements were at these forts. Tejon was a striétly military encampment, but near Fort Miller, a village of about one hundred inhabitants established itself, and taking the name of Millerton, became the county seat of Fresno County.
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