Editing Goshen, California (section)

== History ==
In 1858, the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]] passed through the area stopping at Head of Cross Creek Station, {{convert|4 |miles}} northwest of Goshen, at the head of the place where Cross Creek divided into two branches for a time, making it easier to cross them separately.  It was {{convert|12 |miles}} west of the next stop at [[Visalia, California|Visalia]], and {{convert|15| miles}} southeast of the next stop in the other direction, [[Kingston, California|Whitmore's Ferry]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

Goshen was founded in the 1870s. The [[Central Pacific Railroad]] was expanding which continued with a branch line from Goshen to Visalia in 1874.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Vives |first1=Ruben |last2=Uranga |first2=Rachel |last3=Lopez |first3=Robert J. |last4=Garrison |first4=Jessica |last5=Molina |first5=Genaro |date=2023-01-22 |title='I am afraid to live here': How a massacre in a small California town named Goshen shocked the country |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/i-am-afraid-to-live-here-how-a-massacre-in-a-small-california-town-named-goshen-shocked-the-country |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> In the early 1890s, [[Christopher Evans (outlaw)|Chris Evans]] and [[John Sontag]] robbed a [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]] train at Goshen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eshomvalley.com/sontag_evans.html|title=Sontag and Evans|publisher=eshomvalley.com|access-date=November 29, 2012}}{{Self-published source|date=January 2023}}</ref>