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Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region IX.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Sewage disposal plants
ISBN : UCAL:C3090755
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031044050
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 1887815031
Author : Christopher J. Castaneda,Lee M. A. Simpson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822979180
Often referred to as “the Big Tomato,” Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or “New Switzerland”). It was at Sutter’s sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area’s warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government’s major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while “Old Sacramento” revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento’s pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento’s identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.
Author : Ralph Chase Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Geology
ISBN : ERDC:35925002004205
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Natural history
ISBN : OCLC:458752755
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036644102
Author : California State University, Sacramento. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCSD:31822016116386
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028043474
Author : Larry L. Dale,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UCSD:31822042493809
Author : Brian R. Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Forest surveys
ISBN : MINN:31951D02964662I
Author : Eileen Heaser,Les Kong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0880660937
Author : Sarah Connick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : UCLA:L0097047195
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Government publications
ISBN : LOC:0018632013A
Author : Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : California
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014041176
