The Creole was a slave ship headed for New Orleans with a âcargoâ of 135 slavesâbut it would never make it to port, because there was a real-life Django on board. Madison Washington was the shipâs cook and a man whoâd escaped from slavery once before.
Fresno County, California. Fresno County, officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state, California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 930,450. The county seat is Fresno, the fifth-largest city in California.
Fresno has three large public parks, two in the city limits and one in county land to the southwest. Woodward Park, which features the Shinzen Japanese Gardens, numerous picnic areas and several miles of trails, is in North Fresno and is adjacent to the San Joaquin River Parkway.