When the narrow gauge San Joaquin & Sierra Nevada Rail Road arrived just across the western Calaveras County border in October 1882 on its way east from Lodi, the railroad honored John Wallace, its chief engineer/surveyor, by naming the town it created after him. The townsite was officially recorded on January 16, 1883, having been surveyed by John’s oldest son, John Herbert.
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