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Gold specimen from the Eagle's Nest Mine, a source of specimen gold in Placer County. Placer County (/ ˈ p l æ s ər / PLASS-ər; Placer, Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county located in the U.S. state of California.
The Nisenan tribe of Native Americans had long inhabited the area. [7] The Gold Rush of 1849 brought violence, disease and overwhelming loss for the tribes. [8]Joseph Libbey Folsom purchased Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff, and laid out the town called Granite City, mostly occupied by gold miners seeking their fortune in the ...
Rose of Lima, TOSD (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 – 24 August 1617) (Latin: Rosa Limana, Spanish: Rosa de Lima) was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe penance [4] and her care of the poverty stricken of the city through her own private efforts.
The organization takes its name from one of Sacramento’s original European settlements, Sutter's Fort, built by California pioneer John Sutter.In response to the 1918 flu pandemic, community leaders constructed the first Sutter Hospital in the vicinity of the fort, replacing an old adobe house that had previously served as a makeshift hospital.
Construction of the road was financed primarily by 30-year, 6% U.S. government bonds authorized by Sec. 5 of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.They were issued at the rate of $16,000 ($265,000 in 2017 dollars) per mile of tracked grade completed east of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada range near Roseville, CA where California state geologist Josiah Whitney had determined were the ...
Roseville High School was the 2008 Sierra Foothill League Football Champions and CIF Sac-Joaquin Section ... Mark and Mike Polish - American screenwriters and film ...