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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sacramento County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia. Common names in English include big blue lilyturf , lilyturf , border grass , and monkey grass . This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
In the southeastern United States Liriope is sometimes referred to by the common name monkey grass or spider grass. The pronunciation of "Liriope" varies. Commonly recommended pronunciation are / l ɪ ˈ r aɪ ə p i / lih-RY-ə-pee (US), [4] [5] and / l ɪəˈr iː oʊ p eɪ / leer-EE-oh-pay (British), [6] but there are many regional variations.
The counties of Contra Costa and Sacramento organized a joint highway district in November 1925 to fund an improvement of the northern approach from Rio Vista; [21] the concrete highway was completed in July 1927, creating a fully paved continuous route between Sacramento and the bay. [22] Looking south along Highway 160 on Sherman Island.
Tower Bridge (California) This is a list of the crossings of the Sacramento River from its mouth at Suisun Bay upstream to the Ribbon Bridge in Redding. There are many more bridges north of this point up to Lake Siskiyou, immediately east of the source of the river at the confluence of the South and Middle Forks of the Sacramento River.
East Sacramento (also known as East Sac) is a neighborhood in Sacramento, California, United States, that is east of downtown and midtown.East Sacramento is bounded by U.S. Route 50 to the south, Business Loop 80 to the west and north, Elvas Avenue to the northeast and east, and California State University, Sacramento and the American River to the southeast.
According to the January 11, 1854, Sacramento Daily Union, the first steamboat in California, besides the Sitka, was the Pioneer brought out in pieces from Boston, and put together at the West Point, in Benicia, and launched there in August, 1849, by the "Edward Everett Company". She was a side-wheeler, 70 feet in length, 25 feet beam, with an ...
Southside Park is a neighborhood in Sacramento, California, located immediately south of Downtown Sacramento. Its official borders are R Street to the north, W-X Freeway to the south, I-5 to the west, and 12th Street to the east. Southside Park is part of the City of Sacramento's South Side Historic District.