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Old Sacramento and Downtown

Old Sacramento and Downtown

Paperback

Series: Images of America

General PhotographyRegional: West

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ISBN10: 0738531235
ISBN13: 9780738531236
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Jun 21 2006
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
The discovery of gold launched an unprecedented rush of humanity to California's Sierra foothills. Many of those miners and minerals flowed as naturally as the waterways into a settlement that grew where the American and Sacramento Rivers meet. The Sacramento River, the main traffic artery between the mines and San Francisco Bay, was soon flanked by a burgeoning Embarcadero and commercial district that became Sacramento City in 1849. Paddlewheel riverboats, like the New World, carried goods,

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