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Juan Brown (1799–1859), nickname Juan Flaco, known as the Paul Revere of California, rode from Los Angeles to San Francisco California in four days, 52 hours, in 1846, during the Mexican–American War. Juan "Flaco" Brown was sent by Captain Archibald H. Gillespie at Fort Hill to due the Siege of Los Angeles, started on September 22, 1846.
Pages in category "History of Stockton, California" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The site of the former Weber Point Home is a California Historical Landmark No. 165, listed on January 11, 1935. The Weber Point Home was a built by Captain Charles M. Weber, founder of Stockton. Weber was pioneer of California and built a two-story adobe-and-redwood house in 1850. At the time it was the largest house in Stockton.
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. [19] It is the most populous city in the county, the 11th-most populous city in California and the 60th-most populous city in the United States.
By land acreage, the Port of Stockton is the 2nd largest port in the State of California and sits on about 4,200 acres (17 km 2), and occupies an island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and a portion of a neighborhood known as Boggs Tract. It is governed by a commission appointed by the City of Stockton and San Joaquin County. The ...
It was constructed as the Insane Asylum of California at Stockton in 1851. It was on 100 acres (0.40 km 2) of land donated by Captain Charles Maria Weber.The legislature at the time felt that existing hospitals were incapable of caring for the large numbers of people who suffered from mental and emotional conditions as a result of the California Gold Rush, and authorized the creation of the ...
Children's Home of Stockton (1912), 430 North Pilgrim Street. Designed by architect Edgar B. Brown, who is also known for designing the Stockton Hotel (1910) and the Knox-Baxter-Sullivan Mansion (1910) at 205 East Magnolia Street. The building was added to the city register by resolution number 99–0312 on June 22, 1999.
Steamboats operated in California on San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and Sacramento River as early as November 1847, when the Sitka built by William A. Leidesdorff briefly ran on San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River to New Helvetia. After the first discovery of gold in California the first shipping on ...