Hansen

On August 1, 1881, one Thomas E. Hughes filed with the county recorder of Fresno County a subdivision map of some 2,880 acres of land adjacent to and immediately south of the city of Fresno, California. This subdivision was by Hughes denominated “Fresno and it divided this large tract into 144 lots of 20 acres each. The Southern Pacific Railroad ran northwesterly through a part of this tract. Easterly and westerly through a portion of this tract there was platted a street, named “Church Avenue.’’ This street extended from the said railroad westerly to a street Hughes had by said map designated as “Cherry Avenue,” and which last-named street was distant approximately one-half a mile from a point where said railroad intersected “Church Avenue.” Lots 21, 22, 23, and 24 of said “Fresno Colony” were by the said Hughes map shown to border on the north side of “Church Avenue,” and lot 21 bordered on the east line of said “Cherry Avenue.” These streets are by said map designated as sixty-foot streets.

On February 7, 1888, one J. E. Hughes filed with the same officer a map or plat whereby “all that portion of Lots 21, 22, 23 and 24 ‘Fresno Colony’ lying westerly of Central Pacific R. R.”…