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The city of Clovis began as a freight stop along the San Joaquin Valley Railroad.Organized on January 15, 1890, by Fresno businessmen Thomas E. Hughes, Fulton Berry, Gilbert R. Osmun, H.D. Colson, John D. Gray, and William M. Williams, in partnership with Michigan railroad speculator Marcus Pollasky, the SJVRR began construction in Fresno on July 4, 1891, and reached the farmlands of Clovis M ...
Auburn is a city in King County, Washington, United States (with a small portion crossing into neighboring Pierce County). The population was 87,256 at the 2020 Census. [3] Auburn is a suburb in the Seattle metropolitan area, and is currently ranked as the 14th most populous city in the state of Washington.
Location of Placer County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Placer County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Placer County, California, United States.
It is 7.25 mi (11,670 m) south-southwest of Colfax, and 9.3 mi (15.0 km) northeast of Auburn. [2] The city's msl elevation is 2,005 ft (611 m). [1] Its ZIP code is 95703 and its area code 530. Applegate was originally settled in 1849 by Lisbon Applegate, who came to California with his son, George, from Missouri.
1838 map from Britannica 7th edition, when the river was called Buenaventura River. View of the American River from below the Guy West Bridge on the Sacramento State campus. The American River is a 30-mile-long (50 km) river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown ...
State Route 49 (SR 49) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California that passes through many historic mining communities of the 1849 California gold rush and it is known as the Golden Chain Highway. [2]
Cool, formerly known as Cave Valley, is a small town in El Dorado County, California, [1] about 40 miles (64 km) from Sacramento, the state capital. Cool is at an elevation of 1,532 feet (467 m). Cool is at an elevation of 1,532 feet (467 m).
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.