Atwater

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Atwater is written by Atwater Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1439614253 (ISBN 10) and 9781439614259 (ISBN 13).

The town of Atwater was rich in a different kind of treasure than the gold usually sought by people flocking to California in the 1850s. Named for Marshall D. Atwater, a tenant on several of founder John W. Mitchells 2,000-acre parcels, the community boasted a mineral-rich alluvial soil that made it an extremely productive agricultural area. When the Central Pacific Railroad came throughthanks to lobbying from Mitchell, along with several strips of free land deeded to the railroada switch was laid next to Atwaters warehouse. The train switch and the building became known as Atwater Station, and in time, the town itself bore his name.