On the corner of 8th Street and N Street in downtown Sacramento California is a magnificent home that at one time was the residence of Leland Stanford, an east coast educated lawyer, one of the Big Four railroad men of California, a California governor, a United States Senator and the founder of Stanford University. Today, …
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California Chinese and the Napa Valley Wine Caves
An historic story that hasn’t received a great amount of attention are the wine caves built by Chinese laborers during the latter part of the 1800’s. In fact, in 1885, Chinese laborers built a 350 foot wine cave in Napa Valley California using only picks and shovels. The Early Chinese Immigrants The Chinese in California, …
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Six Month Voyage Chasing for Gold
The Gold Craze Takes Hold When gold was first discovered at Sutters Mill in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, a mad dash like this country has never seen was put in motion. Thousands of people in the eastern United States, not to mention the world in general, suddenly wanted to be in California. The …