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The History of Mariposa County, California including Yosemite Valley
Author : Elroy Ecklar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329627222
The History of Mariposa County, California including Yosemite Valley
Author : Mariposa County Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Mariposa County (Calif.)
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Author : Leroy Radanovich
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738529493
One of the original 27 counties of California, Mariposa County, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and containing more than 900,000 acres, once covered one-fifth of the state and was considered the "Mother of California Counties." First inhabited by several Native American tribes, the land that became Mariposa County saw a flood of miners and other white settlers to the area with the discovery of gold in 1849. The county produced not only $48 million in gold, but also millions in copper, lead, zinc, and chromite, among other minerals. Now home to more than 20,000 residents, as well as most of the famous Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County takes pride in the history that lives in the Gold Rush buildings lining downtown Mariposa and Coulterville's main streets and still standing in early mining towns like Hornitos and Bear Valley.
Author : Fresno County Genealogical Society
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Mariposa County (Calif.)
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Author : Stanley Katcher
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
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ISBN : 9781535416597
Find the Mother Lode! Explore historic Mariposa County, including Yosemite National Park and a wealth of California Gold Rush history.
Author : Charles S. Butler
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Soils
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Author : Mariposa County (Calif.). Planning Department
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 1991
Category : City planning
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Author : Leroy Radanovich
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439650233
In 1846, Thomas Larkin, American council general to the Mexican government in California, purchased a Mexican land grant, Las Mariposas, for Col. John C. Fremont. The grant consisted of 10 square leagues of grazing land located near the Merced River and west of the Sierra. In 1848, when California became the possession of the United States, the treaty called for the recognition of preexisting grants. Gold was discovered in the foothills of the Sierra that same year. Fremont floated his questionable Mexican grant into the gold discovery region. With the formation of the State of California in 1850, one of the original counties was named Mariposa, Spanish for "butterflies." Located within the county was the Fremont grant and much of the yet undiscovered Yosemite region of the Sierra. Encounters with Native Americans near the mining camps lead to the formation of the Mariposa Battalion, and a search for the natives led to the American discovery of Yosemite Valley. Thus, it was custodians and photographers such as Charles Leander Weed, Carlton E Watkins, J.J. Riley, George Fiske, Ansel Adams, and many others that interpreted and introduced Yosemite to the world.
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Mariposa County (Calif.)
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Author : M. B. Levick
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Mariposa County (Calif.)
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