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Lone Star (formerly, Lonestar) is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California.[1] It is located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad 3.25 miles (5 km) east-northeast of Malaga,[2] at an elevation of 318 feet (97 m).[1]
The Lonestar post office operated from 1891 to 1895 and from 1900 to 1910.[2] The place was named by the first settlers after their former home state, Texas (the Lone Star State).[2] Other sources, however, say that the town was named by schoolchildren.[3]
The town and local school were established in 1882, and the town hall was built in 1899. Many of the early settlers were of Armenian-American descent.[3] The Lone Star Elementary School is still active; students and a librarian at the school are said to have convinced Francis Ford Coppola to adapt the novel The Outsiders into the 1983 film of the same name.[4]
References
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lone Star, Fresno County, California
- ^ a b c Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1065. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ a b Moore, Brenda (June 21, 1982). "Lone Star community marks a century". The Fresno Bee. Fresno, CA. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
- ^ "How the Outsiders Film Was Made". The Outsiders House Museum. 2023. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
