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Designated. 1965. The Caverns of Sonora, a National Natural Landmark, [1] is a unique cave located 8 miles (13 km) west of the small city of Sonora, the seat of Sutton County, Texas. It is a world-class cave because of its stunning array of calcite crystal formations, especially helictites. These helictites are found in extreme abundance, often ...
Moaning Cave from the bottom of the shaft. Moaning Caverns is a solutional cave located in the Calaveras County, California, near Vallecito, California in the heart of the state's Gold Country. It is developed in marble of the Calaveras Formation. It was discovered in modern times by gold miners in 1851, but it has long been known as an ...
GNIS feature IDs. 1659815, 2411930. Website. www.sonoraca.com. Sonora is the county seat of Tuolumne County, California, United States. Founded during the California Gold Rush by Mexican miners from Sonora (after which the city is named), the city population was 5,003 during the 2020 Census, an increase from the 4,610 counted during the 2010 ...
New Melones Lake is a reservoir on the Stanislaus River in the central Sierra Nevada foothills, within Calaveras County and Tuolumne County, California. The New Melones Dam and reservoir are a water collection and transfer unit of the United States Bureau of Reclamation 's Central Valley Project. New Melones Lake provides irrigation water ...
Murphys, California. [1] Murphys, originally Murphys New Diggings then Murphy's Camp, is an unincorporated village located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 2,213 at the 2010 census, up from 2,061 at the 2000 census. A former gold mining settlement, the main street ...
Summary. Aerospace Museum of California. North Highlands. Sacramento. Sacramento Valley. Aviation. Located on the grounds of the former McClellan Air Force Base, displays of military and civilian aircraft as well as space vehicle replicas. Alpine County Museum. Markleeville.
Donner Pass. Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974) Dodge City (1939) Down Rio Grande Way (1942) Downwardly Mobile (1996) Drums of the Deep South (1951) Duel in the Sun (1946) Dundee and the Culhane (1967) TV Series. East of Eden (1981) The Eagle's Talons (1923)