Ripon’s history has been intertwined with Salida’s from the beginning, despite the invisible boundary line drawn upon the Stanislaus River. Stanislaus County was born via the passage of a bill by the California state legislature on April 1, 1854 annexing part of Tuolumne County to create Stanislaus County.Annexation for Stanislaus continued in 1860 with another bill to annex portions of Calaveras, Tuolumne and San Joaquin counties to Stanislaus. This was so heavily opposed by the two mining counties that it was withdrawn and amended to only annex a portion of San Joaquin County.The 1860 annexation was known as “Walden’s Steal” for the 110,000 acres of San Joaquin County land that was annexed away by Stanislaus County’s Assemblyman Miner Walden.