1940-ESPARTO WELDING & MACHINE WORKS Phone 26J

1957- Last Train- SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD DEPOT

1930-Lamb Valley Slough Bridge

MILE POST 28- Esparto, California

MILE POST 28- Esparto, California

Highway 16, Esparto, California

1941- W. P. A.

ESPARTO HIGH SCHOOL

Stamped into the cement in front of Esparto High School.

The WORKS PROJECT ADMINISTRATION

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the WPA, with an Executive Order on May 6, 1935. It was part of the NEW DEAL PLAN, to get the Country out of the “Great Depression” by reforming the Financial Systems, and restoring the economy to pre-Depression levels.

The Unemployment rate in 1935, was a staggering 20 percent.

The WPA was designed to provide relief for “the Unemployed” by providing jobs, and income for millions of Americans.

At the height in 1938, more than 3.3 million Americans worked for the W.P.A..

The WPA- which in 1939 was renamed the WORKS PROJECT ADMINISTRATION employed mostly “unskilled men” to carry out the “Public Works Infrastructure Projects.”

The W.P. A. built more than 4,000 School Buildings.

Front of Auditorium - WPA 1941.

WPA 1 9 4 1- sidewalk in front of Esparto High School.

1948- ESPARTO CATHOLIC CHURCH sold to Esparto Baptist Mission.

Interior of Baptist Mission Church.

1948- ESPARTO CATHOLIC CHURCH

1957- ESPARTO BAPTIST MISSION

“On Fire Fellowship” Baptist Church

26534 Madison Street, Esparto, California

History of this Church- ON FIRE FELLOWSHIP

This Church was built in 1886 in Madison, California, where it was a Catholic Church.

It was moved to Esparto in 1948, where it remained a Catholic Church until November 7th, 1972 when it was purchased by the Esparto Baptist Mission.

It became a self supporting church September 5th, 1996 with five active members. Those members were Ed Crider, Pauline Crider, Ruth Taber, Mary Cornwell and Stanley King.

1950- ARCO Gas Station- 16811 Yolo Avenue, Esparto, California

-CHEVRON Standard Oil Gas Station- 16939 Yolo Avenue, Esparto, California

HOG CANYON- former ARCO Gas Station

HOG CANYON- former Arco Gas Station

EL TORO FOOD- former CHEVRON Gas Station

1957- SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD DEPOT- Esparto, California

February 19, 1877- Vaca Valley Railroad continues northwest expansion towards Madison and is renamed the Vaca Valley & Clear Lake Railroad.

May 1, 1877- track opened between Winters and Madison, a total of 27.4 miles from Elmira.
May 15, 1888- Vaca Valley & Clear Lake Railroad merged into the Northern Railway, (a Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary. Northern Railway was created on this date as a consolidation of several smaller railroads.
July 1, 1888 Northern Railway opens 23.65 miles of track between Madison and Rumsey via Capay (Esparto).
April 14, 1898- Northern Railway consolidated into Southern Pacific Railroad. Line is known as the Rumsey Branch of SP.
April 15, 1934- Southern Pacific Railroad abandons track between Rumsey and Capay. Track removed between Rumsey and Capay. Line becomes SP's Capay Branch.
1943- Track abandoned from Esparto - Capay. Line becomes Southern Pacific’s Esparto Branch.
1957- Last passenger train operated between Elmira and Esparto.
March 7, 1975- Line abandoned between Vacaville - Esparto. Line becomes Southern Pacific’s Vacaville Branch.

Southern Pacific Depot- Esparto, California

Corner of Yolo Avenue (Highway 16) and Woodland Ave, Esparto

1999-COUNTY OF YOLO- Esparto Regional Library Friends of Esparto Regional Library

17065 Yolo Ave, Esparto, California

Friends of the Esparto Regional Library History

The Friends of the Esparto Regional Library, a 7 member 501 (C)3 organization, formed in 1996 “to raise funds for the Esparto Regional Library Capital Campaign.” The Library was built in 1999 for $1.2 million after ten years of fundraising by community volunteers and generous contributions from individuals and governmental agencies. Most of the financing to build the Library came from private and public donations, including those from Dixie Keisler ($117,503), the Yocha Dehe Winter Nation ($328,066)), a Friends of Library Capital Campaign ($325,000), Development Impact Fees ($200,000), Library Funds ($119,030). The Esparto School District provided the site on which the 5,590-square-foot, single story structure was built.

Once the Library construction was completed in 1999, the Friends of the Esparto Regional Library, (an all-volunteer Board of Directors,) became the primary organization to support the Enrichment Programs and services offered at the library. The Library offers a welcoming space for people of all ages to read, learn, access free computers and the Internet, and explore. FERL is also responsible for the the management of the FERL Endowment. FERL increase Library patronage by sponsoring programs on the Arts and Sciences. Each month, a Special Program happens at the Library “to entertain and educate.”