Jet skiers, wind surfers, laughter flying across the water, camp site music and barbecue immersed with summer heat at Millerton Lake, in the Foothills of the Sierras.
Can you imagine? Underneath the waters of Millerton Lake sleeps the original town of Millerton, built in 1852. That’s where the peaceful Yokuts native people lived, weaving their baskets and fishing the salmon, until the prospectors came. That’s also where the first county seat of Fresno County was held. After that came the flooding of the San Juaquin River, then the steam engines of the Southern Pacific Railroad, taking away the glory of Millerton until finally, the Friant Dam was built in 1944…
If only the rocks can talk!
