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River City and Valley Life
Author | : Christopher J. Castaneda |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2013-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822979187 |
Often referred to as “the Big Tomato,” Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or “New Switzerland”). It was at Sutter’s sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area’s warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government’s major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while “Old Sacramento” revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento’s pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento’s identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.
The Sacramento Region Plan, Presented at the Red Bluff Meeting of the Sacramento Region Citizens' Council
Author | : Simon Julius Lubin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Sacramento County (Calif.) |
ISBN | : |
Sacramento Pioneer Association: News of the Day, Volume One, 1854 to 1859
Author | : Michael Alan Shepard |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1329378326 |
Recorded within these pages is the history of the Sacramento Pioneer Association during the organization's formative first six years. Founded in 1854 by pioneers of the California Gold Rush, the Sacramento Pioneer Association was an historical, civic and cultural society composed of some of Sacramento's most prominent men. Transcribed from newspaper articles contemporary with that bygone era, "News of the Day" is a journey back in time, back to the American Victorian era of California, back to the lives and times of the Sacramento Pioneers.
News, Sacramento City Public Schools
Author | : Sacramento City Unified School District |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
An Evaluation of Cable News Network Demand Among Sacramento Area Graduate Business and Law Students
Author | : Karl Reed Guest |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Television broadcasting of news |
ISBN | : |
World War II Sacramento
Author | : Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2018-04-16 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439664684 |
Spurred into action by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sacramento dragged itself out of the morass of the Great Depression and joined the war effort. Local citizens trained for Japanese attacks through Civilian Defense, cultivated thousands of acres of victory gardens and harnessed the agricultural riches of the region. Tens of thousands engaged in war work at local bases like the new McClellan Field, while Sacramento's diverse servicemen distinguished themselves in combat overseas. They would later return and transform the city into the modern Sacramento of today. Exclusive images and stories from the Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library bring this story to life.
Sacramento
Author | : Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2019-06-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1439667195 |
Going back to its Native American origins, Sacramento has withstood flood, fire, and plague to honestly earn the moniker Urbs Indomita or "Indomitable City." Such grit--enhanced by an unmatched embrace of diversity and the strength that comes with it--has powered the Sacramento area's role as gold rush epicenter, railroading Goliath, purveyor of hydroelectric power, world war and Cold War arsenal, agricultural hub, and policy center for one of the nation's most innovative states. Truly, the impact of the Capital City extends so much farther than the Central Valley. It is through exploring the pages within that the reader will truly understand why, as stated by Sacramento historian and developer Gregg Lukenbill, "America may have been born in Philadelphia, but the American West was born in Sacramento."