City of Selma could have been named 'Sandwich'

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Did you cognize that the City of Selma could person been named Sandwich?

Well, according to the County of Fresno, in a societal media post, they said that Fresno County's 2nd incorporated metropolis could person been named Sandwich. In the post, they don't springiness an nonstop crushed wherefore it could person been named Sandwich, but they bash spell into immoderate of the past of the city.

In the post, it says that Selma began arsenic a halt connected the Central Pacific Railroad successful the 1870s. Ten years later, the 40-acre townsite would unfastened its archetypal station bureau and found the Valley View School District.

Officials accidental successful 1893, Selma was incorporated and became the 2nd metropolis successful Fresno County. It was called "Home of the Peach" until the 1960s erstwhile it was changed to the "Raisin Capital of the World."