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be in the territory of the Cholbumne tribe who occupied the area between Byron Hot Springs and Lone Tree Creek (Latta 1949). The Northern Valley Yokuts are one of three Yokuts groups that inhabited the California Central Valley and the Sierra Foothills. The Yokuts language is one of five languages in the California Penutian language family, the others being Miwok, Costanoan, Maiduan, and Wintuan (Silverstein 1978). The former site of"San Joaquin City" located approximately 5 miles northeast of the p oject area, is reported to have been a protohistoric village site (HiIIman and Covello 1985). Further ethnographic information on the Yokuts is provided by Powers (1877); Kroeber (1925); Latta (1939, 1949, and 1977); and Wallace (1978). The California Central Valley was initially explored by the Spanish from 1776 to 1849 (C,ok 1943, 1960, 1962). The first organized American exploration of the Central Valley was by Colonel J. Warner of the Ewing-Young trapping expedition 1832-1833 (Gilbert A. 1879:11). The first settlement in the vicinity of Stockton was French Camp, which was occupied by Canadian hunters who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. Following the discovery of gold in California, in 1848, the central valley became a SJ pplier of food and goods for the miners. Thus sheep, cattle and horse ranching dominated the Central Valley until the 1860's when the demand for agricultural goods transformed the valley into the productive agricultural region it is today (Napton0 1994a). r On a more local scale, little is known about the early history of the area in the Wmediate vicinity of the project area (Napton 1994a). Of greatest note is the rise and fall of"San Joaquin City" located northeast of the project area. This early settlement ga ned town'status in 1862, when it is reported to have had nine surveyed streets. It peaked in the 1870's when it had twelve saloons, six stores, a stage station, three hotels, a blacksmith shop, and a barber, among other services (Napton 1994). The town de�lined until 1911 when the San Joaquin River changed course, passing to the east of the town. At this time the town was virtually abandoned. 11 The land one half mile northeast of the1 ro'ect area is recorded to have e belonged to the Averell Brothers in 1879. Northeast and adjacent to the Averell Brothers property is land owned by W. Uterdorffer which had a homestead on it(Gilbert 1879, Map 4). 11 A literature review was conducted by the Central California Information Center (CLIC), Sacramento State (Appendix 1). Also examined were reports on file at Pacific 11 Legacy's Berkeley office which conducted the study for the proposed Vernalis Interchange (Eidsness 19945). The literature search included a review of the CCIC base MAPS, the National Register of Historic Places, the California Inventory of Historic Resources (1976), the California Historical Landmarks (1996), the California Points of Historical Interest listing (May 1992 and updates), the Historic Property Directory (Office of Historic C:\A-RCHAEOL\KOSrER\SRVYREPR.WPD DRAFT Koster Road March la,19W 2 Quarry Archaeolegical5urvey