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The Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country) is a historic region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, that is primarily on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. It is famed for the mineral deposits and gold mines that attracted waves of immigrants, known as the 49ers, during the 1849 California Gold Rush.
The Stanislaus County Fair, located in Turlock, California, opens every year in mid-July. It is the largest event in Stanislaus County. For 10 days, more than 220,000 visitors attend the 72-acre (290,000 m 2) fairgrounds. There are nightly celebrity concerts, performances on five stages, and over 30 food concessionaires.
Thereafter, the state fair was held annually in Sacramento; however, the district fair continued to be held at the pavilion erected at Cortez Square in Marysville. There were 16 fairs held between the years 1858 and 1879. The district fairs were held until the start of the 20th century and then continuity of fair activities is difficult to trace.
For the California wine region, see Napa County wine. (2020) Napa County (/ ˈnæpə / ⓘ) is a county north of San Pablo Bay located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 138,019. [ 6 ] The county seat is the City of Napa. [ 7 ]
map. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, commonly also known as the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and officially known as the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair, was a worldwide exposition held in Portland, Oregon, United States in 1905 to celebrate the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Fair Game is a 2010 biographical political drama film directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. [4] It is based on Valerie Plame 's 2007 memoir Fair Game [4] and Joseph C. Wilson 's 2004 memoir The Politics of Truth. [5] Watts stars as Plame and Penn as her husband, Joseph C. Wilson. [4]
Arcata (/ ɑːrˈkeɪ.tə /; [7] Wiyot: Goudi’ni; [8] Yurok: Oket'oh) [9] is a city adjacent to the Arcata Bay (northern) portion of Humboldt Bay in Humboldt County, California, United States. At the 2020 census, Arcata's population was 18,857. Arcata was first founded in 1850 as Union, was officially established in 1858, and was renamed ...
1982. Lane County settled the fair’s lawsuit with $19,000 that the fair then used as a down payment on 240 acres of land. Late 1980s. In 1986, Oregon’s Department of Transportation planned to ...