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The other day we went hiking at the Almaden Quicksilver County Park in San Jose, California. It's an extensive park with many trails, and not many people. There is also a ghost town, called English Town, built to house miners. Quicksilver, aka mercury was mined from 1847 to 1976. The mines were highly important during the California Gold Rush, since mercury was used to extract gold from ore. There is a lonely mine cart and some mining equipment left at the entrance of the park.
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Fall beckons along the banks of the Lagunitas Creek in Marin County, California. Samuel P. Taylor State Park is a state park located in Marin County, California. It contains approximately 2,700 acres of redwood forest and grassland. The park contains about 600 acres of old-growth forest. The park is named for Samuel Penfield Taylor, who found gold during the California Gold Rush and used some of his money to buy a parcel of land along Lagunitas Creek
Springtime is beautiful in the California Gold Country.
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I spent the other night in Sonoma. While I was there, I decided to pop over and see the General. I was surprised to find out he'd been dead for the past 120 years. You think they'd put news like that on the internet.
Seriously though, General Vallejo's old house in Sonoma is a historic treasure that pre-dates the California gold rush. Check it out if your ever in town. Just don't expect to find the General in attendance.
Sonoma CA
Sunset over Tranquille Farms,
Kamloops, B.C.
As I was trying to decide on a title for this photo, a phrase popped into my head. "There's gold in them thar hills" (which, in my head, was said in a country twang) seemed perfect.
I thought it must have been said in some old classic movie about the California gold rush but I looked it up to be certain. The google search was pretty inconclusive. There were several stories about the derivation of the phrase. So, I'm sorry if you've never heard the phrase before but... doesn't it seem perfect anyway? :-)
Looking towards the Coastal Mountains in the background
Farmlands of the Sacramento Valley in Yolo County
It's manufactured only 18 pieces, and cost $6,999. Unfortunately, it is sold out. But I am sure it'd cost much more if some people resell it. This photo was taken at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on January 18, 2020. Yup, right before many of us heard about COVID. I was planning to go back there but haven't done since 2020 because the car rental was ridiculous expensive. I would love to go back there again, hopefully next year.
On the Road ...
Barstow - California - Usa.
Video "... On the Road": youtu.be/BIohfLij5mU
Video "CALIFORNIA Gold Rush MARIPOSA": www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNU9_XjL50&t=27s
Video "YOSEMITE National Park": youtu.be/o9kjE305sFg
Video "Grand Canyon National Park II" : youtu.be/rFrhf3RVYek
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Daybreak at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco earlier this year.
Shot taken from Pier 14 with Treasure Island in the distance.
"The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the United States.
The toll bridge was conceived as early as the California Gold Rush days, with "Emperor" Joshua Norton famously advocating for it, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened on Thursday, November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, with trucks, cars, buses and commuter trains on the lower, but after the Key System abandoned rail service on April 20, 1958, the lower deck was converted to all-road traffic as well. On October 12, 1963, traffic was reconfigured to one way traffic on each deck, westbound on the upper deck, and eastbound on the lower deck, with trucks and buses allowed on the upper deck."
An old gold mine phone as seen at the North Star Powerhouse Museum in Grass Valley, California. This phone was used in the North Star Mine, which was the second most productive hard rock mine during the California gold rush era.
Over the years a county nature park has been set up around the town of New Almaden. There are trails that visit the old mines and camps in the mountains, This is one of the trail heads.
The New Almaden mines were developed during the California gold rush to supply quick silver (mercury) needed to process the gold. The quick silver was extracted from mines located around the town of New Almaden. The quick silver mines made almost as much money as the gold mines themselves. New Almaden is located in the Silicon Valley, one could say, a more recent gold mine.
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In 1849 people joined the Gold Rush to California. A few found gold but many didn't.
However, every Fall one can still find gold if they check out the Sierra Nevada Range. Mother nature pours out her colors abundantly.
Stitched Pano
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
The park chronicles 200 years of history, from Native American culture, Spanish Empire frontier, California Gold Rush, evolution of American coastal fortifications, and growth of urban San Francisco; comprising of 19 separate ecosystems & home to 1,273 plant/animal species. It has hundreds of ways to recreate including horseback riding, ranger-led programs, bicycling, hiking, and walking your dog.
View of my morning commute when I wore a younger man's clothes. (From the "Way-Back" Archives)
The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in the western United States. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California.
The Sierra runs 400 miles north-to-south, and is approximately 70 miles across east-to-west. Notable Sierra features include Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America; Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States; and Yosemite Valley sculpted by glaciers out of 100-million-year-old granite.
The Sierra Nevada has a significant history. The California Gold Rush occurred in the western foothills from 1848 through 1855. Due to inaccessibility, the range was not fully explored until 1912.
Fall beckons along the banks of the Lagunitas Creek in Marin County, California. Samuel P. Taylor State Park is a state park located in Marin County, California. It contains approximately 2,700 acres of redwood forest and grassland. The park contains about 600 acres of old-growth forest. The park is named for Samuel Penfield Taylor, who found gold during the California Gold Rush and used some of his money to buy a parcel of land along Lagunitas Creek
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Most of us have seen one of the countless films based on Alcatraz, from Birdman of Alcatraz to Escape From Alcatraz. Over a million people every year take the ferry through the thick San Francisco fog to walk the cell blocks that housed the likes of Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone. As usual Huell wasn’t satisfied with the regular tour and went in search of the “Hidden Alcatraz”.
It got its name from the Spanish word Alcatraces, or Bird Island and didn’t see human inhabitants until the U.S. Military took it over in the mid 1800s. During the Civil War it was used as a prison for Southern privateers. After the more modern prison was built in the 1930s , the old Civil War prison was covered over and virtually forgotten.
Join Huell as he goes under Alcatraz and discover the labyrinth of tunnels and caves that honeycomb “The Rock”. The remnants of our state’s rich history are finally uncovered in this very special tour. There is much more to Alcatraz than meets the eye.
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For a boy raised in the Mountains of Wyoming, a hot desolate plain with lots of dry grass in the San Joaquin Valley of California hardly seems a likely place to find one of the 3 varieties of elk native to the United States. It is certainly not one of the most scenic areas in California. I visited the small viewing area on the Tule Elk State Natural Reserve twice before without seeing one elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes) up close. But on this visit my luck changed. I could hear bull elk bugling as I left my vehicle but could only see shadowy shapes behind the tules (native reeds) that blocked most of the view at the so called viewing area. But with some patience; and waiting; I finally got some shots of these beautiful animals including this one of a bull elk. The high ridge behind him is the Elk Hills.
The Tule Elk State Natural Reserve located at the south end of the San Joaquin Valley, protects a small herd of tule (toó-lee) elk. Three subspecies of elk (Cervus elaphus also known as Cervus canadensis) still survive in the United States, Roosevelt elk, Rocky Mountain elk and tule elk. Most of the elk familiar to westerners in the US are Rocky Mountain elk. The smaller Tule elk are an endemic California subspecies that was once hunted nearly to extinction. Before the California Gold Rush in 1849 an estimated half a million tule elk ranged the length of the Central Valley of California which includes to San Joaquin Valley. Depending on the availability and quality of vegetation, each tule elk needs several acres of forage to thrive. California’s lush Central Valley originally provided ideal grazing range for the tule elk.
Even so, the elk subspecies began its California decline in the 1700s with the arrival of European settlers. They imported grasses and grazing animals that competed with both native vegetation and native animals. Hunters and traders further decimated the state’s elk population when they began killing them for hide, tallow, and later meat to feed the 49ers (as the Gold Rushers were called). By the time elk hunting was banned by the State Legislature in 1873, the tule elk was believed to be extinct.
As ranchers worked their land they found a few survivors. Cattle rancher Henry Miller led a movement to protect any remaining tule elk by providing 600 acres of open range (near today’s preserve) and protecting the elk from hunters and others. In 1874, one lone pair of elk were found hiding in the tules near Buena Vista Lake. An 1895 count showed 28 surviving tule elk the herd began to increase on Millers 600 acre reserve. In 1932 the State Park Commission purchased 953 acres for a preserve near the town of Tupman. This Tupman Zoological Reserve would become the modern State Reserve.. About 140 elk were finally enclosed. In the 1950s, with new dams on the Kern River, the habitat shrank and so did the elk population. In 1954 just 41 surviving elk lived on the refuge. The Department devised a feeding program to keep the elk in good health; they also built artificial ponds, so the animals could drink and cool off during summer heat by wallowing in mud and water. It worked. The elk numbers increased. Elk from the reserve have been successfully transplanted to other areas in California. Today nearly 4000 tule elk are again free roaming the foothills and grasslands of California.
References:
www.parks.ca.gov/pages/584/files/TuleElkSNRWebBrochure201...
San Angelo,Texas.
On transcontinental trail of California Gold Rush. Until 1846 a part of Bexar Land District, Republic of Texas. Private tracts were surveyed as early as 1847. German Emigration Company colony (90 mi. SE) had grants here, but in 1840s found Indians blocking settlement. Butterfield Overland Mail managers lived at stands in area, 1858-61. R. F. Tankersley family established a permanent home in 1864 in future Tom Green County. By 1874 there were five settlements here, including Bismarck farm, a colony of 15 German immigrants. The county (12,756 sq. mi., 10 1/2 times as large as state of Rhode Island) was created in 1874 and named for heroic Gen. Green (1814-64), a state official and gallant Texas soldier. After a decade of progress, the original Tom Green County began losing outlying areas. Midland County - halfway between Fort Worth and El Paso on newly opened Texas & Pacific Railway - was created in 1885. Settlers remote from San Angelo petitioned for new counties in 1887, and the Texas Legislature created Crane, Loving, Upton, Ward and Winkler. Coke and Irion Counties were cut out of Tom Green in 1889. Ector and Sterling were created in 1891. Last diversions - Glasscock (1893) and Reagan (1903) - gave Tom Green its present size. It remains influential in the region. (1972)
Columbia State Historic Park, also known as Columbia Historic District, is a state park unit and National Historic Landmark District preserving historic downtown Columbia, California, United States. It includes almost 30 buildings built during the California Gold Rush, most of which remain today.[3] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.[2
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located in the southern part of San Francisco Bay, California.
The San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds are a roughly 16,500-acre part of the San Francisco Bay that have been used as salt evaporation ponds since the California Gold Rush era. Most of the ponds were once wetlands. The ponds are noted for their vivid colors, ranging from magenta to blue-green, that are especially visible from the air. The colors come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the different salinity levels in the ponds.
Marine Layer (clouds): “The cooler air below the inversion is called the marine layer and is cooled to the point at clouds form,” according to the National Weather Service.
San Jose is a large city surrounded by rolling hills in Silicon Valley, a major technology hub in California's Bay Area.
Two bridges are barely visible crossing the SF Bay: San Mateo (longer and northern bridge) connects San Mateo on the SF Peninsula with Hayward, CA. Dumbarton Bridge consists of a road crossing over the San Francisco Bay constructed in 1982, with a cycling & walking path.
Near the bottom is the Calaveras Reservoir.
California so badly needs rain! I am looking forward to our rainy season! We have a Mediterranean mixed with Pacific Northwest climate on the Coast. No rain all summer long....the wild grasses along all the iconic hillsides forested by live oaks turn "California gold". All that changes with our rains and we enjoy several months of lush green hills. But recently we endured five years of terrible drought, thankfully broken by beautiful rainfall last winter, and I'm hoping for another winter of plenty again.
replica detail of an 1849 canvas tent and lantern. during gold rush times, telegraph hill was dotted with temporary tent homes, some made from the sails of the ships that carried the miners. see a larger shot in the comment section below.
maritime museum
fisherman's wharf
san francisco, california
ps: today we have homeless people living in camping tents pitched on the sidewalks in the mission district. history repeats itself -- except for the gold part.
besides, a tree was growing through the truck bed. Found while wandering through a small town in California gold country.
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Nyctaginaceae
Tribe:Bougainvilleeae
Genus:Bougainvillea
At the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, a reconstruction of camp along a California gold rush trail depicts an area of Nevada's High Rock Canyon where an immigrant carved "George N. Jaquith July the 16th 1852 from Wis."
High Rock Canyon is located along Lassen's phony shortcut that lured travelers into the desert towards Oregon and Lassen's ranch.
Nevada's High Rock Canyon is still remote. The nearest inhabited building is 25 miles away and the nearest landline is 75 miles.
Columbia State Historic Park, also known as Columbia Historic District, is a state park unit and National Historic Landmark District preserving historic downtown Columbia, California, United States. It includes almost 30 buildings built during the California Gold Rush, most of which remain today. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Morning lighting at this high vantage point after leaving Lake Tahoe area and heading towards Yosemite National Park. Pretty open country.
Fort Point has been called "the pride of the Pacific," "the Gibraltar of the West Coast," and "one of the most perfect models of masonry in America." When construction began during the height of the California Gold Rush, Fort Point was planned as the most formidable deterrence America could offer to a naval attack on California. Although its guns never fired a shot in anger, the "Fort at Fort Point" as it was originally named has witnessed Civil War, obsolescence, earthquakes, bridge construction, reuse for World War II, and preservation as a National Historic Site.
Fort Point was built between 1853 and 1861 by the U.S. Army Engineers as part of a defense system of forts planned for the protection of San Francisco Bay. Designed at the height of the Gold Rush, the fort and its companion fortifications would protect the Bay's important commercial and military installations against foreign attack. The fort was built in the Army's traditional "Third System" style of military architecture (a standard adopted in the 1820s), and would be the only fortification of this impressive design constructed west of the Mississippi River. This fact bears testimony to the importance the military gave San Francisco and the gold fields during the 1850s.
In 1861, with war looming on the eastern horizon, the Army mounted the first 55 guns at the fort. Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of the Pacific branch of the Army, prepared the defenses of the Bay and ordered the first garrison for Fort Point. Kentucky-born Johnston then resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army (he was later killed at the battle of Shiloh in 1862). Fort Point never had to fire its guns in defense during the Civil War; the war came and went, without the Confederate Army ever launching an assault on the Bay. Although the Fort never came under attack, its mere presence created a deterrent that would have weighed heavily in the minds of those who sought to
Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) growing in a field at the Guadalupe Oak Grove Park in the Almaden area of San Jose, California.Claytonia perfoliata (Indian lettuce, spring beauty, winter purslane, or miner's lettuce ; syn. Montia perfoliata) is a fleshy annual plant native to the western mountain and coastal regions of North America from southernmost Alaska and central British Columbia south to Central America, but most common in California in the Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys. The common name miner's lettuce refers to its use by California Gold Rush miners who ate it to get their vitamin C to prevent scurvy. It can be eaten as a leaf vegetable. Most commonly it is eaten raw in salads, but it is not quite as delicate as other lettuce. (Wikipedia)
Columbia State Historic Park, also known as Columbia Historic District, is a state park unit and National Historic Landmark District preserving historic downtown Columbia, California, United States. It includes almost 30 buildings built during the California Gold Rush, most of which remain today. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Explored best position #2 at 30.2.2010
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After a band or rain passed through, the morning sun popped over the horizon to illuminate this spectacular rainbow - which was the next band of rain.
I like how the crepuscular rays of the sunrise are mirrored in it.
I measured 1.5 inches total rainfall from this storm. Down on the coast, places got as much as a foot or two.
Yeah, color usually isn't my thing, nor are sunrises, sunsets or rainbows...
Taken as a series of portrait oriented shots that were then stitched together using PanoramaStitcher for Mac. The barrel distortion was removed with Affinity Photo.
Emerald Lake -- Trinity Alps Wilderness, California
Trailhead -- Stuart Fork
Distance --- 14 miles
Elevation -- 5,500 feet
Depth ------- 68 feet
Size --------- 43 acres
Looking down on Emerald Lake from the trail leading to Sapphire Lake. This particular stretch of trail is strewn with gold mining era relics. The rusty conglomeration of gears, flywheels, cables, decaying timbers is all that remains of an old, turn-of-the-century, steam powered winch. The winch was used in the construction of the rock dam at the lake's lower end.
The trail skirts the lake (photo left) and continues on as far as Sapphire Lake -- about a mile further up the trail. From Sapphire -- where the trail ends -- it's an off-trail, brushy, rock-hopping climb up to incomparable Mirror Lake, the headwaters of the extensive and wild Stuarts Fork drainage.
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Photo taken: Aug. 25, 2004
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The joshua trees will be flowering soon. Linked Californa's Gold episode is from 1993 when the park was still a monument. The most grotesque member of the vegetable family.
Flickr is annoying.