Kingston, California
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The town of Kingston, California no longer exists. Founded in 1856 by Lucious A. Whitmore, who operated the first ferry to cross the Kings River, Kingston became a stopping place on the Overland Stage route between Stockton and Visalia after 1858. A toll bridge replaced the ferry in 1873, and the town went into decline. On December 26, 1873, Tiburcio Vásquez and his bandit gang made a bold raid, robbing the entire village. By the 1890s Kingston was abandoned.
The site of the town is now a California Historical Landmark (#270), which can be found in Kingston Park in the city of Hanford.
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