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Old Sacramento and Downtown (Images of America) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sacramento Archives And Museum Collection Center, Historic Old Sacramento Foundation
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 616550
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0738531235
Dewey Decimal Number: 978
EAN: 9780738531236
ASIN: 0738531235
Publication Date: June 26, 2006
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Product Description
The discovery of gold launched an unprecedented rush of humanity to Californias 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,
passengers, and great wealth. Besting all jealous rivals, Sacramento became the state capital, and a wealthy merchants residence was transformed into the governors mansion. Today downtown and Old Sacramento, a 28-acre
state historic district, are thriving, graced by such treasures as the restored State Capitol Building, the art deco Tower Bridge, and scores of historic structures and attractions like the Leland Stanford Mansion and the California State Railroad Museum.
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Too disjointed June 16, 2008
This is definitely a picture book, it reminds me of a photoalbum where the pictures are stuck together in no particular fashion. If you are trying to learn the history of Sacramento, is it not a good read. If you are just looking for historic photographs, the pictures are interesting.
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