Early Stockton

Digging deeper, archaeologists found artifacts that belonged to the Tretheway family, who lived on Miner Avenue in the 1870s. The Tretheways were from England, and they had six children. Mr. Tretheway was a carpenter.

Miner Channel flowed right behind the Tretheways’ backyard. Although Miner Channel flooded, it might also have been a good place to hunt and fish and to play games.

 

Nineteenth-century Stockton was a busy place to live. It was the main port for goods and crops from the southern Central Valley. The Tretheways’ neighbors included other families and some businesses.

Click here to compare this drawing of the block made in 1870 to the one made in the 1900s.

How do you think the block changed?

What might it have been like to live on the block in the 1870s as compared to the 1900s?