To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Phillips' Ferry (Merced River)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phillips' Ferry was a historical ferry crossing of the Merced River, located in present-day Merced County, California.

History

Phillips' Ferry was one of the three main crossings of the Merced River on the San Joaquin Valley section of the 19th century Stockton - Los Angeles Road. They were located within 2 miles (3.2 km) downstream of the rapids known as Merced Falls. Closest downstream to the falls was Phillips' Ferry; then Belts Ferry − later Murray's Ferry near the later town of Merced Falls; and then Young's Ferry a mile and a half below Murray's Ferry.[1]

John Phillips

John Phillips was an Englishman who came overland to California in 1849. After a while in the mines he came to Mariposa County and then returned to the East in 1851 and brought out his family the next year to Mariposa County on the Merced River where he established his ferry and a store.[2][3]

In 1853, John Phillips' ferry was taken as the point for the new Merced County boundary between it and the original Mariposa County. Eventually Murray replaced his ferry with a $12,000 bridge. After a while the ferries lost the economic struggle with the bridge and Phillips moved to Hornitos.

The site of Phillips' Ferry across the Merced River is now marked by the bridge that carries the Hornitos Road across the Merced River.

See also

  • Stockton - Los Angeles Road topics

References

  1. ^ John Outcalt. History of Merced County, California, Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, 1925; CHAPTER IX
  2. ^ John Outcalt. History of Merced County, California, Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, 1925; CHAPTER VI
  3. ^ JOHN W. PHILLIPS FAMILY CHRONICLE - by Glenn Burghardt MARIPOSA COUNTY FAMILY CHRONICLES; CALIFORNIA HISTORY AND GENEALOGY RESEARCH website accessed February 17, 2012

37°31′29″N 120°19′16″W / 37.52472°N 120.32111°W / 37.52472; -120.32111


Stub icon

This Merced County, California-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page was last edited on 28 May 2022, at 00:43
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy