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Bakersfield  Bakersfield was settled in 1858 by a handful of families who had trekked northward through the El Tejon Pass seeking home sites rather than gold.  The town was named by an early settler, Colonel Thomas Baker, who invited the weary travelers through the valley to rest overnight.  These travelers would plan in advance to meet and rest in "Colonel Baker's field."  Baker formally laid out the town in 1869, and within two years the city had a telegraph office, two stores, a newspaper, two boarding houses, one doctor, a wagon shop, a harness shop, one attorney, a saloon, and fifty school pupils.  The Bakersfield Centennial Garden and Convention Center rests on part of the original Colonel Baker's field as well as the Centennial Plaza community park.