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Register of the Christian Colony (Acampo, Calif.) Records, 1905-1940
Ms45
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Title: Christian Colony (Acampo, Calif.) Records,
Date (inclusive): 1905-1940
Collection number: Ms45
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Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
San Joaquin County Museum.
Lodi, CA 95241
Language:
English.
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[Identification of item], Christian Colony (Acampo, Calif.) Records, Ms45, San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum.
Colony Church of Christ (Acampo, Calif.)
Real estate development - California - San Joaquin County
Acampo (Calif.) - History - Sources
In 1904 a Stockton (Calif.) bank hired J.P. Dargitz to sell 1000 acres of land formerly belonging to State Senator Benjamin
F. Langford north of the Mokelumne River near Acampo. Dargitz advertised the land in a magazine published by the Christian
Church as available exclusively to members of that denomination. The land was subdivided into ten acre parcels that sold for
between $1200 and $1500 each. A sufficient number of settlers were attracted to the region within a year to warrant establishment
of the Colony Church of Christ.
Members of this church continued to farm the region for more than thirty-five years, until the church property was sold to
the Bruella School District (1940).
The Christian Colony Records consist principally of the Colony Church of Christ (Acampo, Calif.) records (1905-1940).