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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.
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.
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, 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.
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
Grace Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral located in the heart of San Francisco. It is a famed sightseeing destination for its striking architecture, stunning stained glass, labyrinths, Interfaith AIDS Chapel, and arts and cultural programs. Grace Cathedral is a working cathedral for all people, serving the community and its congregation with a deep commitment to social justice. An admission fee for sightseeing includes self-guided tours in multiple languages. Religious services are held regularly.
On the top of Nob Hill, Grace is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of California, led by Bishop Marc Andrus since 2006, while the cathedral's local parish has been led by Dean Malcolm Clemens Young since 2015.
The parish, founded in 1849, lost its previous church building in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The parish opened a temporary facility in 1907, raised enough funds to start construction of the present cathedral in 1927, started using it in 1934, and completed final construction in 1964. The cathedral is known for its mosaics by Jan Henryk De Rosen, a replica of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, two labyrinths, varied stained glass windows, Keith Haring AIDS Chapel altarpiece, and medieval and contemporary furnishings, as well as its forty-four bell carillon, three organs, and choirs.
The cathedral's ancestral parish, Grace Church, was founded in 1849 during the California Gold Rush. Little Grace Pro-Cathedral (1907) was built on the new site, flanking Taylor Street near California Street, and a cathedral design by noted English Gothic Revival architect George F. Bodley was accepted. Little Grace was built on Powell near Jackson, across the street from the first Episcopal church in San Francisco, Trinity Church. After Trinity Church moved away, Grace Church moved into the larger building; this imposing third church, unofficially referred to as Grace "Cathedral" because of its size. In 1862, construction began at California and Stockton. The new church was consecrated on May 3, 1868. Prominent members of San Francisco society joined the parish in the third church, including Leland Stanford and William Henry Crocker.
In 1865, Mark Twain published (in The Californian newspaper) purported private correspondence between himself and potential short-term rectors, satirizing the church's somewhat unsuccessful efforts to find a short-term rector in the 1860s and 1870s, "stating" that he had written to one New York priest who had already turned down Grace's offer of $7,000 per year (equivalent to $124,000 in 2021): "A word in your ear: say nothing to anybody - keep dark - but just pack up your traps and come along out here... They never expected you to clinch a bargain like that. I will go to work and get up a little competition among the cloth". Among the short-term rectors were roll film inventor Hannibal Goodwin and James Smith Bush, the great-grandfather of former US President George H. W. Bush and great-great-grandfather of former US President George W. Bush.
When the 1862 building was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake, the Grace parish opened a temporary facility in 1907. The family of railroad baron and banker William Henry Crocker donated the site of their ruined Nob Hill property (on the block bounded by California, Jones, Sacramento, and Taylor) for a diocesan cathedral, which took its name and founding congregation from the nearby Grace parish.
Dean J. Wilmer Gresham nurtured the young cathedral and work began on the present structure with the laying of the cornerstone in 1910. The cathedral was designed in English Gothic style by George Frederick Bodley in London, who died in 1907, with Lewis P. Hobart of San Francisco completing the plans thereafter. The parish raised enough funds to build a few small portions, moving the parish services into a small completed section in 1912, then moving into the larger crypt, when that was completed in 1914. At a dinner event in 1927, Bishop Edward L. Parsons told the audience that the Episcopal Diocese of California was launching a fundraising effort in 1928, looking to raise $3.6 million (equivalent to $56.8 million in 2021) to complete the full cathedral.
Over the next six years, the cathedral continued to expand, though the Great Depression hampered fundraising. By 1934, Grace parish was able to move its services into the chancel and partially complete nave of the cathedral. Further construction was put on hold until 1960, with the exception of one (of the two) bell towers, which was addressed whenever funds allowed, taking over seven years (1936–1943) to complete. Grace Cathedral remained in this state, with a large vacant space between the partial section of nave and the single bell tower, for the next 17 years. Once construction restarted in 1960, the cathedral quickly advanced, and was completed in 1964 as the third largest Episcopal cathedral in the nation.
On March 28, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon at Grace Cathedral as part of the festival celebrating its completion and consecration. The service took place on the Fourth Sunday of Lent. Approximately 5,000 people were present to hear King's sermon. It was the largest gathering at the cathedral for the next 37 years, until the September 11, 2001, memorial service took place.
Columbia State Historic Park, also known as Columbia Historic District, is a state park unit and National Historic Landmark District preserving historic downtown Columbia, California, United States. It includes almost 30 buildings built during the California Gold Rush, most of which remain today.[3] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.[2
Here is another shot from my archives...I remember this hike kicking my a#$! But the American River seems to get more beautiful the higher you go in elevation!
The trail to Euchre Bar starts at Iron Point and drops 1780 feet in 1.5 miles to the North Fork American River, a designated Wild and Scenic River. While steep, the trail is in very good shape with lots of shade. The trail dates back to the California Gold Rush. Euchre was a card game popular with the early miners. At the river, one can find remnants of buildings, ditches and old mining equipment. A bridge, built in 1965, crosses the river. The main trail continues up river 2.5 miles to Humbug Bar.
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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.
Old car hulk in the California gold mining ghost town of Bodie. November 2009. Single shot HDR image.
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California. With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated major U.S. city behind New York City and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind four of New York City's boroughs. Among the 92 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2022.
Prior to European settlement, the modern city proper was inhabited by the Yelamu, who spoke a language now referred to as Ramaytush Ohlone. On June 29, 1776, settlers from New Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate, and the Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi. The California gold rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, transforming an unimportant hamlet into a busy port, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time; between 1870 and 1900, approximately one quarter of California's population resided in the city proper. In 1856, San Francisco became a consolidated city-county. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, it was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama–Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, it was a major port of embarkation for naval service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. In 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, establishing the United Nations and in 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, the rise of the beatnik and hippie countercultures, the sexual revolution, the peace movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred by leading universities, high-tech, healthcare, finance, insurance, real estate, and professional services sectors. As of 2020, the metropolitan area, with 6.7 million residents, ranked 5th by GDP and 2nd by GDP per capita across the OECD countries, ahead of global cities like Paris, London, and Singapore. San Francisco anchors the 13th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 4.6 million residents, and the fourth-largest by aggregate income and economic output, with a GDP of $729 billion in 2022. The wider San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area is the nation's fifth-most populous, with around nine million residents, and the third-largest by economic output, with a GDP of $1.32 trillion in 2022. In the same year, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $252.2 billion, and a GDP per capita of $312,000. San Francisco was ranked fifth in the world and second in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of September 2023. Despite a continuing exodus of businesses from the downtown area of San Francisco, the city is still home to numerous companies inside and outside of technology, including Salesforce, Uber, Airbnb, Levi's, Gap, Dropbox, and Lyft.
In 2022, San Francisco had more than 1.7 million international visitors – the fifth-most visited city from abroad in the United States after New York City, Miami, Orlando, and Los Angeles – and approximately 20 million domestic visitors for a total of 21.9 million visitors. The city is known for its steep rolling hills and eclectic mix of architecture across varied neighborhoods, as well as its cooling summers, fog, and notable landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Alcatraz, along with the Chinatown and Mission districts. The city is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of California, San Francisco, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, the SFJAZZ Center, and the California Academy of Sciences. Two major league sports teams, the San Francisco Giants and the Golden State Warriors, play their home games within San Francisco proper. San Francisco International Airport (SFO) offers flights to over 125 destinations while a light rail and bus network, in tandem with the BART and Caltrain systems, connects nearly every part of San Francisco with the wider region.
Crosses on the roof of Grass Valley’s historic stave Emanuel Episcopal Church which is the oldest Episcopal temple in California constructed in 1858 during the California Gold Rush in Grass Valley California. OM Systems Olympus OM-D EM-1 Olympus M.Zuiko PRO 12-40mm f/2.8. #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @visitcalifornia @visitgrassvalley #grassvalley #olympus #olympusphotography #microfourthirds #micro43rds #omd #micro43photography @nevadacountylandmarks @nevadacountyca
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.
These trees provide shade between a large parking lot and the Historic District. Columbia is a California Gold Rush community. Its authentic buildings have been under State protection since 1945.
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park is a state park of California, United States, marking the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush. The park grounds include much of the historic town of Coloma, California, which is now considered a ghost town as well as a National Historic Landmark District. The park contains two California Historical Landmarks: a monument to commemorate James Marshall and the actual spot where he first discovered gold in 1848.
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Patagonia.
Chasing Ice, glaciers, icebergs and sweeping frozen landscapes .
The Patagonian plateau is one of Mother Nature’s grand displays of mountain peaks, dazzling icebergs and glaciers and breathtakingly beautiful sceneries.
Only around a quarter of the plateau falls in Chile, while the remaining portion is in Argentina. Chilean Patagonia has two sub-portions: the northern region of Aisen and the southern Magallanes, where you can find the Punta Arenas, of California Gold Rush fame.
Columbia State Historic Park > California Gold Rush Town > 1850's
Browns Coffee House and Sweets Saloon
Brown’s Coffee House and Sweets Saloon is conveniently located in the heart of Columbia State Historic Park on Main Street. We offer a full espresso bar, sandwiches, baked goods, ice cream, assorted candy, homemade preserves, honey, tea, and many more wonderfully sweet and flavorful goodies.
The Oneonta Gorge is in the Columbia River Gorge in the American state of Oregon. The U.S. Forest Service has designated it as a botanical area because of the unique aquatic and woodland plants that grow there. Exposed walls of 25 million year old (Miocene epoch) basalt are home to a wide variety of ferns, mosses, hepatics and lichens, many of which grow only in the Columbia River Gorge. Oneonta Gorge has been described as "one of the true dramatic chasms in the state."
The lower gorge has been preserved as a natural habitat, so there is no boardwalk or footpath through it as such. Thus, Lower Oneonta Falls can only be seen by walking upstream from the creek's outlet at the Historic Columbia River Highway. To get to a vantage point where the entire lower falls is visible can require wading through water that in some places is chest-deep.
The trail has some issues due to some natural impacts. A log jam has formed along the trail. This has created a hazard for hikers, which led to a fatality in 2011.
The Oneonta Gorge was first photographed by Carleton Eugene Watkins, a native of Oneonta, New York, who had traveled west during the time of California Gold Rush of 1849. Watkins named the Oneonta Falls after his hometown.
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
Near the ruins of the mine office. Not sure what this screened in box was there for but we thought it'd be funny if we put Little Mike in jail.
"Spesso cerchiamo disperatamente la felicità rincorrendo chimere, senza accorgerci che sono le semplici cose a rallegrarci il cuore: la natura con le sue stagioni, gli amici, l'amore, le risate, una passeggiata sulla riva del mare."
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Marzo 2016: il sole tramonta rapidamente dietro le montagne che coronano la baia di Santa Monica, in California, trasformando la superficie del mare in una fluida distesa dorata. Uno dei ricordi più belli di quel breve ma intenso viaggio
Buona giornata
Coloma changed the history of California. This is where James W. Marchall discovered gold in 1848 which started the 1949 Gold Rush. This is the old blacksmith in Coloma which is now a state historic park. www.coloma.com/california-gold-discovery/
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.
Columbia is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Tuolumne County, California, United States. It was founded as a boomtown in 1850 when gold was found during the California Gold Rush, and was known as the "Gem of the Southern Mines."
The town's historic central district is within the Columbia State Historic Park, which preserves the 19th century mining town legacy. The U.S. historic district is a National Historic Landmark District and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Wikipedia Reports: Bodie (/ˈboʊdiː/ BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It became a boom town in 1876 and following years, after the discovery of a profitable line of gold, and suddenly attracted several thousand residents. It is located 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport,[5] at an elevation of 8379 feet (2554 m).[1] The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
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Wikipedia: "The common name of miner's lettuce refers to how the plant was used by miners during the California Gold Rush, who ate it to prevent scurvy [contains Vitamin C in large amounts]. It is in season in April and May [Feb-April in California's East Bay], and can be eaten as a leaf vegetable. Most commonly, it is eaten raw in salads, but it is not quite as delicate as cultivated lettuce [their opinion!! I have no complaint!!]. Sometimes, it is boiled like spinach, which it resembles in taste and chemical composition. Caution should be used because wild C. perfoliata can sometimes accumulate toxic amounts of soluble oxalates (also present in spinach [and lots of greens!!]).
It has been widely naturalized in western Europe, after being introduced there [from?] in the 18th century, possibly by the naturalist Archibald Menzies, who brought it to Kew Gardens in London in 1794."
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This is a toy maker's look at an Old West town. Guns might indeed be for sale at the general store, with little or no regulations--although Old West towns did have gun control laws. The famous Gunfight at the OK Corral was--at least ostensibly--about gun control. The gun control advocates won, too. Note the Well Fargo office. The Wells Fargo Express Line started during the California Gold Rush, and prospered; it still exists today as a banking chain. In its first 100 years, Wells Fargo could truthfully say that they never lost a penny entrusted to them. Remember Dale Robertson's old TV show, TALES OF WELLS FARGO? There was just such a peace officer, and he was very good at apprehending the bad guys and bringing back the loot.
My oldest son is all about planting flowers, so I gave him a large planter to do with what he pleased, and he filled it with little transient golden poppy moments. This particular species (Eschscholzia californica) is also the official state flower of California.
I hung out with two friends yesterday who also happen to be photographers. They are completely different people (sorta goes without saying, I know) and completely different photographers. One follows more of an artistic approach, roaming around the streets of his hometown making photos inspired by the style of William Eggleston. He has a lot of free time on his hands and he spends a lot of it reading and thinking about photography. The other is a commercial photographer. He travels all over the world photo-documenting bicyclists and game hunters and maybe even rednecks mining gold in California foothills. One of these two I meant to run into and talk with, the other was a happy and unexpected coincidence considering I had not talked to him in over a year. Both conversations were great, both left my head with ideas and perspectives that I had not given room to before. One conversation dealt with narcissism in photography. Another dealt with the perceived death of the medium, at least in certain genres. There were several other topics discussed from cars, to film, to the aforementioned California gold-mining rednecks. But it was death and narcissism that most kept me thinking and I am still thinking. Maybe at some point I will get these thoughts out into some coherent work to write and read. Maybe not. I don't have anything to share today, I am just writing for my own sake, to perhaps get that process rolling along further in my own head.
It is a good thing to think about photography. Especially in those quiet, off-moments like standing in the dairy aisle at the grocery store and instead of picking out yogurt you are mulling over the theory of composition or what you really think about Vivian Maier, or what your next photo series should be.
It is then an even better thing to hang out with folks who spend similar amounts of time thinking on this stuff. It opens your perceptions just as surely as photos themselves can.
This photo by the way has nothing to do with any of this, it is just a nice vehicle, an excuse to take the time to think and write for more minutes than I would have otherwise.
Innova 6x9 pinhole / Kodak Ektar 100
Point of Rocks, Ft. Davis, TX. Point of Rocks or Bald Rock was the location of a spring, along the San Antonio - El Paso Road, the first military road through West Texas from San Antonio to El Paso. The road was established in 1849 just as the California Gold Rush began, several parties of 49ers accompanied or followed the Army expedition that established the route. Later used by travelers along the route and was a stop used by stagecoach companies on that route, including the San Antonio-El Paso Mail, San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and was a watering place available to the Butterfield Overland Mail Company coaches a little over midway on their run between Fort Davis and Barrel Springs.
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Tonights sunset was so beautiful. It made up for the one I missed the other night while driving without my camera, especially when I know better and never leave home with out it.
national hotel (aka national exchange hotel)
nevada city, california
this landmark hotel was established in 1852 during the california gold rush. it is reported to be haunted.
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It might be small, but the Ironstone Heritage Museum contains some fascinating Native American and California Gold Rush artifacts and was actually established as a tribute to that historic time and to the Miwok who inhabited the area before the mass influx of mining hopefuls. The Gold Rush collection includes photos, mining maps and personal artifacts including letters written by miners to friends and family back home giving an intimate peek into what life was really like for these 19th century adventurers.
The centerpiece of the museum is the largest crystalline gold leaf specimen ever found in the Mother Lode. A massive 44 pounds in size, the piece is beautifully formed and handsomely displayed.
The “Gold Pocket”, as it has come to be known, is 98 percent pure, making it a specimen of exceedingly high quality and value. Sixty-three pounds before preparation, it spent almost a year in an acid bath washing away most of the surrounding matrix to ultimately reveal the forty-four pound specimen that is on display at the winery. The stone entrance to the crystalline gold display is reminiscent of an early “forty-niners” gold mine with its massive stone face and broad beam construction.
The Heritage Museum also features a vast display of natural gold specimens acquired from modern-day prospectors who are still very active in the Sierra Foothills. Visitors to the museum can purchase a wide variety of books and educational materials, as well as artifacts and souvenirs related to the Gold Rush era.
In addition, carefully selected jewelry is available for purchase in their jewelry shop within the museum, including treasures such as gold-in-quartz jewelry, natural gold nuggets and nugget jewelry, as well as an impressive collection of diamond, emerald, turquoise and other precious and semi-precious gem artistry.
My mother and I visited the Gold Rush country on a vacation to California in May, 1976. This country scene with its wide open spaces is along Highway 49 a bit north of Jackson, one of many historic Gold Rush towns.
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Sunset light falls across purple mountains and green pastoral hills in Central California
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The neighbors of a good friend let me into their 1858 Gold country home. Their basement used to be a gambling place, bar, and brothel. I immediately fell in love with this beauty.
Taken with a Nikon D700 and a Nikon 50mm f1.8
Bodie Ghost Town, Ca.
The Pelton Water Wheel was invented by Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. Pelton went to the California gold fields during the Gold Rush and he improved upon the water wheel then in use. The Pelton wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel. It is still used in power plants throughout the world today.