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Carole Pateman FBA FAcSS FLSW (born 11 December 1940) is a British feminist and political theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British Academy since 2007.
In 1851, miners Crego and Utter built a home there. [5] Mining in the area proved profitable, and the town grew quickly, especially after the Grizzly Ditch brought year round water for mining. [6] By 1852, the population had reached 400, though only 2 families. [7] For a while, Cherokee was the most active mining center on the Ridge. [8]
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States.The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v.
Possibly the site of the historic gold mine, on the 1994 Cherokee, California 7.5-minute quadrangle, a feature named "Cherokee Placer Mine" exists about 0.65 miles southwest of the above coordinates. USGS identifies Cherokee Flat and Drytown as historic variant names for the community. The town is located on Cherokee Road off State Route 70.
The Coal Mine Ridge of Portola Valley Ranch has many walking (closed to biking) trails. [ 13 ] The headwaters of Los Trancos Creek are easily accessed from Page Mill Road in the Los Trancos Open Space Preserve of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and include the Lost Creek Trail, the San Andreas Fault Trail, the Page Mill Trail and ...
There were two trails from Wagon Caves to the coast: the Plaskett/Mansfield Trail to the north, and the Los Burros Trail to the south. [5] Over the Los Burros Trail, it was a 10 miles (16 km) hike to the summit of the Santa Lucia Mountains, followed by a 2 miles (3.2 km) downhill trek to the mines.
The Bay Area Ridge Trail Council (BARTC), founded in 1987, [12] is the organization building, maintaining, and promoting the Ridge Trail. BARTC initially was supported by the Greenbelt Alliance, but it was incorporated in 1991 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit under co-chairs Brian O'Neill and Marcia McNally. [ 1 ]
The California Gold Rush of 1849 led to an influx of miners and ranchers who settled in the Sierra Nevada and Northern California goldfield regions. The mining of gold disrupted indigenous California communities through the degradation of the environment on which they depended, violent attacks on Native California villages by white settlers, and the implementation of a state-sanctioned system ...