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Zamora (formerly, Black's, Blacks, Black's Station, Blacks Station,〔All 〕 and Prairie) is an unincorporated community in rural Yolo County, California, U.S., on Interstate 5 due west of Knights Landing. Its ZIP code is 95698 and its area code 530. It is in the northern part of the county. "Zamora District is bordered by County Road 10 to the north and County Road 16 to the south, County Road 85 on the west and Highway 113 on the east...In 1879 Zamora District included the areas of West Grafton,the eastern portion of Fairview and a small strip of East grafton. The Zamora District encompasses Oat Valley, along Oat Creek in the northwestern part of the districtand Hungry Hollow which is in an area along the foothills west of Zamora." Zamora "was once a thriving little town with a hotel, two stores, a jail, blacksmith shops, a barbershop, a butcher shop, a medical office, a railroad depot, telegraph office, town hall, IOOF building, post office and six warehouses. There were schools and churches there, too. In 1949 and 1969 modern highways rolled through cutting the heart from the town. What was left was a town with 'no services', only a rebulit IOOF building, a rebuilt town hall, the planing mill and St Agnes catholic Church, the school building plus a few houses. But the pulse of the community does not stop with the removal of its heart."〔Zamora Historical Research Society, Zamora California〕 For many years, children of Zamora and its farm families attended kindergarten at Cacheville School in Yolo and first through eighth grades at Zamora Union School. This school had two classrooms, one for first through fourth grades, the other for fifth through eighth grades. Most teachers came to teach for one year only. Children now attend schools to the south in Woodland, California; older children attend Woodland High School. In 2010, Zamora 4-H Club celebrated the 80th Anniversary of its Charter. Zamora 4-H has maintained the cohesiveness of the community since the loss of a community school.〔http://www.Woodlandjournalcom/2010_02_01_archive.html〕 Yolo County officials estimated its 2005 population at 61 and predicted it would have a population of 99 by 2025. Zamora is served by its own post office, a volunteer fire department and St Agnes Catholic church. It lies at an elevation of 52 feet (16 m). ==Economy== Like the rest of Yolo County, Zamora is primarily agricultural. As of 1994, the following families had owned land or lived in Zamora District for three or more generations: Abele, Anderson, Barnes, Bemmerly, Black, Burger, Campbell, Cassilis, Clark, Clausen, Crites, Croll, Curtis, Cutler, Dission, Dill, Fitzgerald, Flournoy, Foster, Gable, Gaddis, Giguiere, Glascock, Hanneman, Harley, Hatcher, Heard, Hermle, Hershey, Hiatt, Horgan, Houx, Huber, Hulbert, Jacobs, Kergel, LaDue, Long, March, Mast, Mezger,Morgan, Morris,Pockman, Quinn, Rahm, Reusch, Richter, Robinson, Rollins, Rominger, Root, Sandrock, Schlieman, Schlosser, Schneegas, Sharpnack, Slaven, Stabel, Stuhlmuller, Taylro, Vickroy, Walker, Weiss, Weyand, Wild, Wohlfrom.〔 Bill and Joan Slaven raise sheep and world-renowned border collies. Michael and Bridget Slaven, from County Tyrone, Ireland settled in Zamora's rolling hills in the late 1800s. Their rolling hills pasture-land is home to Slaven's annual Zamora Hills Sheep Dog Trials. "The range ewes are set out on a ridge maybe 700 yards distant, and the sheepdog won't be able to see them as he walks with his handler to the post. The dog -- a working border collie -- will run more than half a mile to reach the top." 〔http://www.lassiegethelp.blogspot.com/2008/02/zamora-hills-and-some-dog-show.html〕 These trials are one of the best known sheep dog trials in North America. Willow Spring Farms is owned by Jack Mast, fourth generation Yolo county farmer, and his wife Charlotte. Great-grandparents, Gottlob and Mary (Summ) Mast and Fredrick and Catherine (Claus) Mezger from Wurttemberg Germany set up farming operations in Zamora. Gottlob and Mary settled in Hungry Hollow in 1868. When the grain came up high on Gottlob's leg while riding his horse, he knew this was where he wanted to bring his family.〔Mast family〕 Farmers Grain Elevator was established in 1937 by Thomas Mezger. His great-grandparents Fredrick and Catherine (Claus) Mezger, originally from Wurttemberg Germany, moved in 1870 to a 160-acre homestead approximately 3 miles southwest of Black's Station. Originally serving as a scale house, Farmers Grain Elevator eventually became a storage facility and grain purchasing center for local growers. As customer demands grew, Farmers Grain Elevator saw the need to provide quality transportation services for the grower’s harvested crop and in 1971 established Mezger Trucking, Inc. For over 70 years, Farmers Grain Elevator has specialized in the carriage and distribution to market of wheat, corn, barley, safflower and various other agricultural products.Since its inception Farmers Grain Elevator has remained a family business. It is currently co-owned and operated by Dan and Mark Mezger.〔farmersgrainelevator.com〕 Alex and Marlene Long own Zamora Mini-mart on Highway 99 at the Interstate 5 Zamora exit which includes a gas station and small store. For most visitors to Zamora, this is the only place they visit. The Bariani Olive Oil Co. built a processing plant west of Zamora, and of this the ''Sacramento Business Journal'' reported on October 2, 2004:() The parcel in Yolo County is big enough for 18,000 olive trees and a building. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zamora, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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