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Benicia

Benicia

Paperback

Series: Images of America

Travel GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: West

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738529338
ISBN13: 9780738529332
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Dec 1 2004
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A special Bay light falls on beautiful Benicia, on the north shore of the Carquinez Strait. Two U.S. citizens, Robert Semple and Thomas Larkin, bought the land from Mexican Army General Mariano Vallejo for $100 and the promise to name it for Vallejo's wife in 1847. The next year a customer at Von Pfister's Benicia waterfront store let slip the secret of the gold discovery at Sutter's Mill. Benicia's deep water harbor attracted Pacific Mail and Steamship Company, the first major California industry, the famous Matthew Turner shipyards, tanneries, and the Central Pacific Railroad, which made Benicia its transcontinental terminus. State legislators made the town their third state capital in 1853.

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