Stockton
The 13th largest city in the state of California located in the heart of the Central Valley is Stockton. Stockton has an estimated population of 295,00, making it the 62nd largest city in the United States.
Stockton is along Interstate 5, State Route 99 and State Route 4 alongside the farmland of the California Central Valley. Stockton is connected westward with San Francisco Bay by the San Joaquin River’s 78 miles channel, and is, with Sacramento, one of the state’s two inland sea ports. In and around Stockton are thousands of miles of waterways and rivers that make up the California Delta.
The city hosts the annual Asparagus Festival and is the location of Haggin Museum, an art and history museum built in Victory Park in 1931. The museum displays 19th and 20th century works of art and houses local historical exhibits. Stockton is also a rail center and a processing and distribution point for farm products and wines from the Central Valley.
Stockton has been the home of the University of the Pacific since 1924, after the university moved from San Jose. California’s first university, Pacific features a liberal arts college plus schools of education, engineering, business, international studies, music and pharmacy, as well as the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco and the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Pacific’s ivy-league atmosphere, complete with old brick buildings and wide shady lawns, has made it a movie location for a number of feature films.
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