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Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park was a historic building with surrounding land in Chico, California, United States.It is listed as a California Historical Landmark #329 under the name "Rancho Chico And Bidwell Adobe" in 1939; [2] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name "Bidwell Mansion" on March 24, 1972. [3]
[9] [10] Already wealthy from successful ventures in gold mining and logging, Bidwell aligned with other California financiers and put forth some $40,000 to construct the road, and in 1863 received a franchise to operate the highway as a toll road; the group incorporated the following year as the Chico and Humboldt Wagon Road Company.
The history of Chico, California, begins with the original inhabitants, the Mechoopda Maidu. The city of Chico was founded in 1860 by General John Bidwell , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1841.
The park was established July 10, 1905, through the donation by Annie Bidwell, widow of Chico's founder, John Bidwell, of approximately 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of land to the City of Chico. Since that time, the city has purchased additional land, such as Cedar Grove in 1922, and 1,200 acres (490 ha) of land south of Big Chico Creek in ...
Bidwell High School, Antioch; Black Diamond High School, Pittsburg; Del Amigo High School, Danville; Independence High School, Brentwood; La Paloma High School, Brentwood
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The Sierra Railway #28 steam locomotive at Railtown 1897, in 2006. The Sierra Railway served the West Side Lumber Company mill at Tuolumne, as well as the Standard (later Pickering) Lumber Company in Standard, California. The West Side operated an extensive 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge logging railroad in the Sierra Nevada range. It operated into ...
A lunar eclipse above Lofer, Austrian province of Salzburg, in the early hours of Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)