About 177 years ago, Charles Weber stepped off a boat at what is now Weber Point and saw tule marshes, swamps and a malaria-ridden area. But, the man who would come to be known as the "Father of ...

"He'd see something that was poised to become the gateway to the rest of California," San Joaquin County Historical Museum director Philip Merlo said during the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors ...