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Auburn is a city in and the county seat of Placer County, California, United States. [9] Its population was 13,776 during the 2020 census. Auburn is known for its California Gold Rush history and is registered as a California Historical Landmark. [10] Auburn is part of the Sacramento metropolitan area.
This category lists populated places in California that at any point practiced a form of segregation known as a sundown town. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns.
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence. They were most prevalent before the 1950s.
The Old Auburn Historic District was the center of commerce during the early California Gold Rush era, with its close proximity to the Gold Country Mother lode. [4] It was one of the earliest mining camps in the state. [4] On April 25, 1851, the city of Auburn was declared the County Seat of Placer County. [4]
Dutch Flat was founded by two German brothers, Joseph and Charles Dornbach, who settled there in 1851 during the California Gold Rush. [6]To the south of their settlement was the busy mining camp of Green Valley, where 2,000 men were at work when the Dornbachs arrived.
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Lake Clementine (also known as North Fork Lake) is a reservoir on the North Fork American River Canyon above the picturesque, California Gold Rush-era town of Auburn (elevation 1,200 feet (370 m)) in Northern California.