Talk:Goshen, California

Somebody has written here: "Until the twentieth century, Goshen was an island in a marsh at the edge of Tulare Lake, formerly the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes until drained." Nope. Tulare Lake full was elev. 220 ft. And it was over 40 miles to the west. (Lamoore was built on it's northerly highline shore.) There is also no islandish topography around Goshen, -- but Alpaugh has often (and probably wrongly,) been described as an island, on the southerly end of the lake.

Furthermore, Tulare Lake was not drained, it was strangled. (The only way to drain an endorheic basin is with pumps.)

Doug Bashford--69.232.175.87 (talk) 19:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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January 16 2023

It was recently discovered that it was gang members who did this, not cartel. 71.145.194.108 (talk) 14:47, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Goshen was an island in a marsh at the edge of Tulare Lake"

Referring to Goshen as an "island" is a bit of an exaggeration. e.g. North of Goshen (at Cross Creek) it is doubtfully that those marsh areas were normally wet all year. By 1880, railroad tracks ran north & south and east & west through Goshen without any apparent difficulty. In fact, the railroad created Goshen to run their central California line through. I doubt they would have chosen an "island" for this. And as far as Goshen being "at the edge of Tulare Lake", the maps I've seen from the 1870s to 1890s show Goshen about 15 miles from the lake. And those maps don't show marsh areas extending from the lake (15 miles) to Goshen. C sloth (talk) 16:15, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]