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The Pony Express was a legend even in its own time. The very idea of a brave, solitary rider astride a thundering horse transporting mail across 1,900-plus miles sent 19th Century hearts a-flutter, just as the faint, echoing sounds of the Pony’s
Mary Frances Sherwood Hopkins (or Frances, as her husband always called her), and her bridegroom Mark Hopkins, departed New York by ship for California just hours after their wedding ceremony. Frances was 36 on her wedding day
The loss of his law library to fire in 1852 prompted attorney Leland Stanford to migrate west to join his brothers, who had already established successful mercantiles in California’s fabulous Gold Rush towns, including Michigan Flat and
Today, January 8, marks the 150th anniversary of the formal groundbreaking ceremonies for the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) near the intersection of Front and K Streets in
The history museum in Old Sacramento State Historic Park is housed in a replica of the City Hall and Waterworks Building, built in 1854 to answer the need for a better water supply system after Sacramento’s catastrophic 1852 fire. The two-story brick
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