Keywords: Tulare Lake 1874.jpg 1874 map of the former Tulare Lake and its tributaries ” of the 19th century San Joaquin Valley central California It was the largest fresh water lake west of the Great Lakes in North America until diversions and draining destroyed it by the early 1900s Site is in present day Kings County Das Tulare-Lake-Becken im Kings County Kalifornien US Government Printing Office 1874 The Board of Commissioners on the Irrigation of the San Joaquin Tulare and Sacramento Valleys of the State of California PD Old Tulare Lake 1874 cropped jpg pd-old Former lakes Lakes of California San Joaquin Valley California in the 1870s Old maps of California Maps of Kings County California Maps of lakes of the United States Nature of the Central Valley of California Wetlands of California |