Summit.
Pictures of Summit: its buildings and homesteads, the families who lived there, and the land patents that made the homesteads theirs. On the valley map: Cattle claims 1885 (probable); water claims 1893–94 (unverified); first homestead entries 2 July 1901; homesteads mainly 1909–19. 2 photographs · 4 land patents.
From the history of Summit
The pictures in the original account of Summit. Read it ↗
View photograph ↗A Summit homestead cabin
From the Summit area history; people and place not identified.
From: Summit ↗
View photograph ↗An advertisement for the Fresno scraper
A printed advertisement of the Fresno Agricultural Works, Fresno, California, shown with the Summit history.
From: Summit ↗Land patents
Federal patents to homesteads in Summit, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Peter Larsen, 1907
Federal land patent signed 19 April 1907 (BLM serial IDIDAA 005268). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Joseph C. Jenson, 1915
Federal land patent signed 18 February 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0005691). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Charles H. Orison, 1915
Federal land patent signed 9 June 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0006165). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Mamie Nunnelley, 1915
Federal land patent signed 7 July 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0005799). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)Family albums from Summit
The families the valley map places in Summit.
Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.