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Book Synopsis TOWNS OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER by : Philip Pezzaglia
Download or read book TOWNS OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER written by Philip Pezzaglia and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can be considered the first major exploration of the Sacramento River, from its mouth northward, began on May 13, 1817, when Padres Duran and Abella and 20 other men under the command of Lt. Louis Antonio Argullo sailed in two launches up the river. They continued north until May 20, 1817, when they turned back. The group recorded their point of farthest exploration by carving a cross into an oak tree; some believe this point is near the present-day town of Freeport. Three decades later, Clarksburg was established, followed by Walnut Grove, Paintersville, Rio Vista, Onsibo, Freeport, Courtland, Emmaton, Isleton, Vorden, Ryde, Hood, and Locke. Each one of the settlements has its own exciting tale about its founders and the origins of the name that it was given.
Author :Christopher J. Castaneda Publisher :University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN 13 :0822979187 Total Pages :418 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (229 download)
Book Synopsis River City and Valley Life by : Christopher J. Castaneda
Download or read book River City and Valley Life written by Christopher J. Castaneda and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often referred to as “the Big Tomato,” Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or “New Switzerland”). It was at Sutter’s sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area’s warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government’s major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while “Old Sacramento” revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento’s pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento’s identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.
Book Synopsis The Sacramento, River of Gold by : Julian Dana
Download or read book The Sacramento, River of Gold written by Julian Dana and published by Toronto, Rinehart. This book was released on 1939 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rivers and Floods of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Watersheds by : Nathaniel R. Taylor
Download or read book The Rivers and Floods of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Watersheds written by Nathaniel R. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis True Tales of the Sacramento Delta by : Philip Pezzaglia
Download or read book True Tales of the Sacramento Delta written by Philip Pezzaglia and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 13, 1817, marked the first recorded exploration of the Sacramento River. The expedition changed the Delta region forever. A flood of explorers from all over the world poured into the Lower Sacramento River Delta, and soon towns were settled on the banks of the river. As settlement flourished, each new community gave birth to stories of early pioneers, shipwrecks, murder, robbery, vigilante justice, bootleggers and more. Here for the first time in this remarkable collection, local historian and author Philip Pezzaglia reveals the true stories behind some of the tales that have passed through generations, becoming legends of the Delta.
Book Synopsis Locke and the Sacramento Delta Chinatowns by : Lawrence Tom
Download or read book Locke and the Sacramento Delta Chinatowns written by Lawrence Tom and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese pioneers in the Sacramento River Delta were the vital factor in reclaiming land and made significant contributions to Californias agricultural industry from farming to canning. Since the 1860s, Chinese were already settled in the delta and created Chinatowns in and between the two towns of Freeport in the north and Rio Vista in the south. One of the towns, Locke, was unique in that it was built by the Chinese and was inhabited almost exclusively by the Chinese during the first half of the 1900s. The town of Locke represents the last remaining legacy of the Chinese pioneers who settled in the delta.
Book Synopsis Sacramento River, Calif. Hearings ... on the Improvement of the Sacramento River Deep Water Channel, California by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book Sacramento River, Calif. Hearings ... on the Improvement of the Sacramento River Deep Water Channel, California written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, Cal by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, Cal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center Publisher :Arcadia Publishing ISBN 13 :1439631123 Total Pages :134 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (396 download)
Book Synopsis Old Sacramento and Downtown by : Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center
Download or read book Old Sacramento and Downtown written by Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of gold launched an unprecedented rush of humanity to Californias Sierra foothills. Many of those miners and minerals flowed as naturally as the waterways into a settlement that grew where the American and Sacramento Rivers meet. The Sacramento River, the main traffic artery between the mines and San Francisco Bay, was soon flanked by a burgeoning Embarcadero and commercial district that became Sacramento City in 1849. Paddlewheel riverboats, like the New World, carried goods, passengers, and great wealth. Besting all jealous rivals, Sacramento became the state capital, and a wealthy merchants residence was transformed into the governors mansion. Today downtown and Old Sacramento, a 28-acre state historic district, are thriving, graced by such treasures as the restored State Capitol Building, the art deco Tower Bridge, and scores of historic structures and attractions like the Leland Stanford Mansion and the California State Railroad Museum.
Book Synopsis Sacramento City and County, California by : Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
Download or read book Sacramento City and County, California written by Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacramento County and Its Resources by :
Download or read book Sacramento County and Its Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Book Synopsis Sacramento River Service Area Investigations of City of Sacramento and Vicinity by :
Download or read book Sacramento River Service Area Investigations of City of Sacramento and Vicinity written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sacramento River from Colusa to Butte City, 1850 to 1920 by : Robert Lloyd Kelley
Download or read book The Sacramento River from Colusa to Butte City, 1850 to 1920 written by Robert Lloyd Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacramento's K Street by : William Burg
Download or read book Sacramento's K Street written by William Burg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its founding, K Street mirrored the entrepreneurial development of California's capital city. Initially the storefront for gold seekers trampling a path between the Sacramento River and Sutter's Fort, K Street soon became the hub of California's first stagecoach, railroad and riverboat networks. Over the years, K Street boasted saloons and vaudeville houses, the neon buzz of jazz clubs and movie theaters, as well as the finest hotels and department stores. For the postwar generation, K Street was synonymous with Christmas shopping and teenage cruising. From the Golden Eagle and Buddy Baer's to Weinstock's and the Alhambra Theatre, join historian William Burg as he chronicles the legacy of Sacramento's K Street, once a boulevard of aspirations and bustling commerce and now home to a spirit of renewal.
Book Synopsis Sacramento River Water Reliability Study by :
Download or read book Sacramento River Water Reliability Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacramento written by Tom Myers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, Sacramento was a city of 10,000 men with almost no women or children, a transient population going to and from the gold mines in the Sierra Nevada. The waterfront on the Sacramento River was a chaotic scene of oxen and mule teams, piles of supplies on the wharf, and abandoned ships whose crews had jumped ship for the goldfields. The city also became a major railroad junction and agricultural hub in the 1800s before it became the center of state government, and much of the bustling city's early life was captured on picture postcards. Sacramento photographer Tom Myers, a collector of vintage postcards, presents here California's capital city as it used to be, complete with railroads, farming, a busy downtown, government buildings, riverboats, public barhs, the early Yolo Causeway, and even an ostrich farm or two. Myers culled these views from his extensive collection of postcards and modern images, many of which appear in current postcards of Northern California.
