STOCKTON
San Joaquin County • California Local
Stockton’s Motto: “All American City”
Stockton was incorporated on July 23, 1850. Stockton has many nicknames: ‘”Tuleburg”, “Mudville”, “California’s Sunrise Seaport”. “Port City” and “Asparagus Capital of America”.
Stockton is named after Robert F. Stockton, a United States Navy commodore, notable in the capture of California during the Mexican–American War.
Stockton was the first community in California to have a name not of Spanish or Native American origin. Stockton has a fully operating seaport called The Port of Stockton. It is a major deepwater port on the Stockton Ship Channel of the Pacific Ocean.
The University of the Pacific (UOP), chartered in 1851, is the oldest university in California, and has been located in Stockton since 1923. Stockton is the site of the first Sikh temple in the United States; Gurdwara Sahib Stockton opened on October 24, 1912.
Stockton was home to the world’s first radio disc jockey, Ray Newby. In 1909, at 16 years of age, Newby began regularly playing records on a small transmitter.
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