Editing Exeter, California (section)

==History==
Before the arrival of European settlers, [[Yokuts]] settled around an area in an oak forest two miles north of Exeter. The current town site was a plain that possessed elk, antelope, frogs, and deer.<ref name="CofE"/> Rocky Hill, to the east of the city, offered shelter to native tribes when the plain flooded. Several caves on the hill contain petroglyphs, though some of the most important of these were destroyed by local vandals/looters and poorly managed and unsupervised steer.

The town site traces its roots to the construction of a railroad line through the [[San Joaquin Valley]], by 1888 a line passed through the area. A representative of the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]], D.W. Parkhurst, purchased the land from an early settler, John Firebaugh, and formed the town which he named after his own hometown of [[Exeter|Exeter, England]].<ref name="CofE"/>

The damming of the Kaweah valley during the 1930s provided a reliable source of water for agriculture. Cattle ranching grew at the beginning of the 20th century, led by the Gill Cattle Company, which opened in the late 1800s and was once the largest such business in the United States.<ref name="CofE"/> The town incorporated in 1911. In October 1929, Exeter was the site of a large Anti-Filipino race riot. A mob stormed a Filipino work camp, bludgeoning 50 Filipino laborers and burning their camp to the ground. This race-riot sparked a wave of Anti-Filipino hatred.<ref>{{cite web|title=Racial Hatred Once Flared on Central Coast |publisher=The Weekend Pinnacle Online |url=http://www.pinnaclenews.com/life/contentview.asp?c=198024 |access-date=June 6, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719151157/http://www.pinnaclenews.com/life/contentview.asp?c=198024 |archive-date=July 19, 2011 }}</ref>

Professional artists depicting the history of the area have painted huge murals on exterior walls throughout the downtown area. There are currently 31 murals in this outdoor art gallery.<ref name="ExChamber">{{cite web|title=Mural Guide|url=http://www.exeterchamber.com/sites/default/files/exeter-mural-guide-2015.pdf|publisher=Exeter Chamber of Commerce|access-date=March 26, 2017}}</ref>