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In late summer of 1851, James Beckwourth led the first wagon train of settlers along the Beckwourth Trail into Marysville. [3] Between 1851 and 1854,1,200 emigrants used the Beckwourth Trail, leading 12,000 head of cattle, 700 sheep, and 500 horses. [2] [4] However, in 1854, use dropped sharply when the Beckwourth Trail became a toll road. The ...
California Central Railway: Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad: SP: 1868 1874 Southern Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles and Santa Monica Railroad: ATSF: 1886 1887 California Central Railway: Los Angeles Terminal Railway: UP: 1890 1901 San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: Ludlow and Southern Railway: 1902 1931 N/A Marin and Napa Railroad ...
The California Central had consolidated with the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad in 1887, giving it ROW through the San Gabriel Valley. The Santa Fe finally purchased outright the holdings of the Southern California railroad on January 17, 1906, ending the railway's subsidiary status and making it fully a part of the Santa Fe railroad.
[1] [2] Rev. Josiah Henson, a former enslaved man who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad with his wife Nancy and their children, was a cofounder of the Dawn Settlement in 1841. Dawn Settlement was designed to be a community for black refugees, where children and adults could receive an education and develop skills so that they could prosper.
The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was a railroad founded on September 5, 1883, by James F. Crank with the goal of bringing a rail line to Pasadena, California from downtown Los Angeles, the line opened in 1886. Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was sold and consolidated on May 20, 1887 into the California Central Railway.
Share of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway dated May 1, 1921. The Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway was a scenic tourist railway operating between Mill Valley and the east peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California, covering a distance of 8.19 miles (13.18 km), with a 2.88-mile (4.63 km) spur line to the Muir Woods. [1]
The Pacific and Atlantic Railroad Company (P&A) was founded on September 6, 1851, with the goal of building a railroad between San Francisco and San Jose. [2] The route was surveyed and published by the end of 1851, but the P&A was unable to raise funds locally; when the P&A turned to banking houses in New York and England, they were told that no funds could be disbursed without first ...
The Central Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads: Centennial Edition. Howell-North Books, Berkeley, CA. Brands, H. W. (2003). The age of gold: the California Gold Rush and the new American dream. New York: Anchor (reprint ed.). ISBN 0-385-72088-2. Daniels, Rudolph (2000). Across the continent: North American railroad history. Indiana ...