Cheryl Anne Stapp
Historic Riverboat
It’s a hotel, restaurant and special events facility permanently moored at the Old Sacramento Riverfront now, but ninety-odd years ago...
California's Olden Golden Days
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jul 13
- 5 min
Affair of Honor
Dueling was outlawed in California at its pre-statehood Constitutional Convention in the fall of 1849. However, the penalty imposed for...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jul 6
- 2 min
A History Museum's History
Today’s Sacramento History Museum, which opened to the public in 1985, is housed in a replica of the city’s 1854 City Hall and Waterworks...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jun 15
- 3 min
California's Film Industry
Hollywood! To movie fans all over the world, the name is synonymous with glamour, stardom, and cinematic dreams; a place also known—by...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- May 25
- 3 min
Proof is in the Picture
In mid-nineteenth century California, rich men tended to own racehorses, or perhaps sponsor a horse or two owned by someone else; or at...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Apr 19
- 3 min
Serving California by Sea
In the Age of Sail, not everyone who entered California’s harbors came to settle. In the early 1820s, the ships of many nations began...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Mar 16
- 2 min
Her Fight for Education
Elizabeth Thorn Scott Flood was the capable, determined 19th century woman who paved the way for desegregated education for children of...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Mar 2
- 4 min
The Richest Woman
In her later years Mary Frances Hopkins was publicly castigated as a rich, vain, willful woman; her conduct judged foolish and scandalous...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Feb 23
- 3 min
Rev. Thomas Starr King
San Francisco’s First Unitarian Church congregation gaped at its new pastor with a mix of curiosity and consternation. Could this small,...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Feb 16
- 4 min
Mother Shoots Daughter's Seducer
Gunplay was so common during the chaotic, early days of the California Gold Rush that many incidents, though duly reported, drew little...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Feb 9
- 3 min
The Kindergarten Movement
By 1884 California was leading the nation in educational innovations with its system of pre-grammar-school schools, based on ideas...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jan 5
- 3 min
A Close Attachment
The proverb “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” is from the 17th century play The Mourning Bride, and means that no one is angrier...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Dec 29, 2021
- 1 min
Welcoming a New Year
In bygone days Californians celebrated the coming of a new year much like we do today, with parties, games, spectator sports, and...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Dec 22, 2021
- 3 min
Naughty or Nice? Santa's Legend
The Americans who trekked to California in covered wagons made that arduous journey because they wanted to find a better life for...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
Christmas in the Gold Mines, 1849
Whether they came to California overland or by sea in 1849, hordes of predominately young men were joyfully exuberant, for they were...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
Christmas Ads of Old
Genuine settlers might have been the minority of the California Gold Rush-era population, but in the years before the gold discovery...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Accident on the Cliff House Road
The press treated the accident as a sensation—and why not? All the elements were there: women of ill-repute, stampeding horses, and a...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Thanksgiving 2021
Tomorrow we celebrate Thanksgiving Day with friends, family, and a table loaded with the traditional fare: roast turkey with all the...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
Land Laws: Land Grants vs. Homesteads
During the centuries it belonged to Spain, and the few decades it was a province of Mexico, California had no homestead laws that gave...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Early & Ongoing Partition Troubles
California’s north-south cultural split began as early as 1821, the year Mexico won its independence from Spain and acquired the province...
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