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French Camp was once SJ County’s biggest community
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This photo shows the student body of the French Camp School in 1919. French Camp boasted of the first school in the South County. The initial school was built in 1850 at a cost of $491
The biggest community for 13 years in what was to become San Joaquin County wasn’t Stockton. Instead, it was the southern terminus of the Oregon-California trail that brought French-Canadian trappers with the Hudson Bay Company into the Central Valley to hunt beaver, mink, and bear along what is today known as the French Camp Slough.