Serving the Clements, Lockeford, Victor and Wallace, California areas
"In the 1850s and 1860s, Lockeford competed with Woodbridge for road
traffic. A town’s healthy economy depended on the stages, freight wagons
and people traveling between Stockton and Sacramento.
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Jeremiah Woods in Woodbridge had succeeded in pulling away road
traffic by offering free passage across the river to stages. The
only mode of travel left to corner for Lockeford was by riverboat. In late winter and early spring of 1862, the Mokelumne
River was full of water from recent floods. In a valiant effort to
prove that freight could be transported
