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.
The Community of the California Central Valley Fresno's metropolitan area has a population of 505,882 and the county's population is 947,895 as of 2012. The eight counties that make up the Central Valley have a population of 3,971659 in 2010. Cultural events are numerous and feature such groups as the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fresno Arts Center, the Fresno Metropolitan Museum, community theatre groups, and the University's Arts programs.