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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXZ_west-capital-raceway_West-Sacramento-CA.html
A quarter-mile "bullring", it was a whirlpool of horsepower as short track racers in jalopies and specially-built, high-horsepower machines, flew around the oval chasing the checkered flag in close, wheel to wheel action. It was a "tacky" place wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OAU_yolo-county-courthouse_West-Sacramento-CA.html
Around here someplace was almost Yolo County's first courthouse, It was here twice — from 1851 to 1857 and from 1861 to 1863 — when it was stolen permanently by The "Highbinders" in Woodland.
So Be It.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRZE_bryte_West-Sacramento-CA.html
Because of its location on the Sacremento River, it was first called Riverbank. When the post office was established 10 March 1915 the present name - for George Bryte, Sr., a local dairyman, son of Mike Bryte (early sheriff of Sacremento) - was ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBGQ_first-pacific-coast-salmon-cannery_West-Sacramento-CA.html
Founded in the town of Washington (Broderick), Yolo County by Hapgood, Hume, and Company in 1864, California's first salmon cannery was located on a barge moored here on the banks of the Sacramento River. This small canning operation was the begin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAO8_leonidas-taylor_West-Sacramento-CA.html
Erected to the memory of Leonidas Taylor. Born in the city of Philadelphia on the 3rd of July 1832. He grew to manhood in the city of St. Louis and was killed by the explosion of the Steamer Belle opposite this spot on the 5th of February 1856; hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA8G_salmon-cannery_West-Sacramento-CA.html
This is the historic site of the first salmon cannery established on the Pacific Coast. Begun in 1864 by William and George Hume and Andrew Hapgood on a barge moored to the bank, the cannery processed salmon harvested along the rivers - with gill …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA8F_sacramento-skyline_West-Sacramento-CA.html
Just across the river and county line from West Sacramento is the City of Sacramento, seen here in a 1920s photograph looking east from 4th Street down J Street. California's capital city, which is also the seat of Sacramento County, has grown fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA8C_flood-control_West-Sacramento-CA.html
On January 15, 1850, the fledging City of Sacramento, consisting mostly of tents and simple wooden buildings, stood in 6 feet of water. Two weeks later, the community pledged $200,000 to levee construction. But before the levee system could be com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA87_the-rivers-flow_West-Sacramento-CA.html
Prior to European settlement in the mid-1800s, river flows in the valley changed with the seasons: spring torrents followed by low water during the summer. Construction of dams and other flood control measures during the mid-to late 1950s tamed th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA85_hydraulic-mining_West-Sacramento-CA.html
Hydraulic gold mining was introduced in the 1850's. Men with hoses blasted hillsides with powerful jets of water, which reduced the hills to mounds of gravel 20 times faster than with pick and shovel. Massive quantities of gravel and silt from hyd…