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  2. Washington, California - Wikipedia

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    Washington (originally, Indiana Camp) [5] is a census-designated place located in Nevada County, California. [3] Washington is located on the banks of the South Yuba River and has a population of approximately two hundred people. There is a hotel / bar and restaurant, grocery store, a one-room schoolhouse that has educated students continuously ...

  3. Auburn, California - Wikipedia

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    Rolling hills of Auburn, taken near Indian Hill Road. Auburn is located at 13]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2), of which 0.03 square miles (0.078 km 2), or 0.38%, is water.

  4. Foresthill Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Foresthill Bridge, also called the Auburn-Foresthill Bridge or the Auburn Bridge, is a road bridge crossing over the North Fork American River in Placer County and the Sierra Nevada foothills, in eastern California. It is the highest bridge by deck height in California, the fourth highest in the United States, and among the seventy highest ...

  5. Yuba River - Wikipedia

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    The Yuba River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada and eastern Sacramento Valley, in the U.S. state of California. The main stem of the river is about 40 miles (64 km) long, [2] and its headwaters are split into three major forks. The Yuba River proper is formed at the North Yuba and Middle Yuba rivers' confluence, with the ...

  6. California State Route 20 - Wikipedia

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    California State Route 20. State Route 20 (SR 20) is a state highway in the northern-central region of the U.S. state of California, running east–west north of Sacramento from the North Coast to the Sierra Nevada. Its west end is at SR 1 in Fort Bragg, from where it heads east past Clear Lake, Colusa, Yuba City, Marysville and Nevada City to ...

  7. Mountain Quarries Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Quarries Bridge. /  38.91278°N 121.04028°W  / 38.91278; -121.04028. The Mountain Quarries Bridge is a railroad bridge across the North Fork American River, near Auburn, spanning between El Dorado and Placer counties. It is a concrete arch bridge that was built in 1912 to transport quarried rock.

  8. Auburn Dam - Wikipedia

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    200–750 MW. Auburn Dam was a proposed concrete arch dam on the North Fork of the American River east of the town of Auburn, California, in the United States, on the border of Placer and El Dorado Counties. Slated to be completed in the 1970s by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, it would have been the tallest concrete dam in California and one ...

  9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Placer ...

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    1256 Lincoln Way. 38°53′52″N 121°04′30″W. /  38.897847°N 121.074972°W  / 38.897847; -121.074972  ( Oddfellows Hall) Auburn. Three-story red brick Italianate home of IOOF Lodge No. 7, founded in 1852. Henry T. Holmes, builder of the Hall, was a '49er and a founding father of Auburn.