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From December 1861 through January 1862, a series of monster storms dumped unprecedented amounts of rain across the length and breadth of California. Bridges were washed away in Trinity and Shasta Counties. Miners’ cabins, sluice-boxes,
Two well-known, well-traveled arteries in Los Angeles, Sepulveda and La Cienega Boulevards, are named for Spanish-era California pioneers the Sepulveda family and their ranch. Sepulveda Blvd., a major thoroughfare and the
Doctor John Marsh is one of California’s early colorful characters, one of many who reinvented themselves in the West–for although he treated dozens of patients (and never lost one), Marsh was never a genuine doctor. Born in 1799
California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. That year 27 original counties were created; since then boundaries have been redrawn to form new counties, bringing the total to 58.
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