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The idea for the Mariposa Folk Festival was created by Ruth McVeigh and her husband Dr. Casey Jones, after hearing a presentation by John Fisher. [13] The name for the festival was borrowed from Stephen Leacock's Book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, set in the fictional town of Mariposa which was inspired by the real-life town of Orillia.
Mariposa (/ ˌ m ær ɪ ˈ p oʊ z ə,-s ə / ⓘ; [6] Spanish for "Butterfly") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Mariposa County, California, United States. [7] The population was 1,526 at the 2020 census. [3]
Bay Area Science Festival: Bay Area: 2011– Big Sur Jade Festival: Big Sur: 1990– BeachLife Festival: Redondo Beach: 2019– Bishop Mule Days: Bishop: 1969– California Dried Plum Festival: Yuba City: 1988– California Festival of Beers: Avila Beach: California Strawberry Festival: Oxnard: 1984– Citrus Festival: Santa Paula [1 ...
Mariposa County, California, a county in the U.S. state of California, located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range; Mariposa, California, seat of the county in California; Mariposa Township, Saunders County, Nebraska; Mariposa, a master-planned community in Rio Rancho, New Mexico; Mariposa station (Los Angeles Metro)
The best known and most visited of the butterfly colonies is El Rosario. [10] Some conservationists are concerned about the environmental impacts of tourism as "there is no easy way to manage massive tourism... without an ecological footprint." [3] In February, Angangueo celebrates its Festival de la Mariposa Monarca (Monarch Butterfly Festival ...
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Mariposa County was one of the original 27 counties of California, created at the time of statehood in 1850. While it began as the state's largest county, territory that was once part of Mariposa was ceded over time to form all or part of twelve other counties, including all of Merced, Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings, and Kern; and parts of San Benito, Mono, Inyo, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles.
Alkali mariposa lily. The South Fork Kern River is the heart of the preserve and the South Fork Valley. The river begins at elevation 10,400 feet (3,200 m) in the Inyo National Forest at Mulkey Meadows, named after Cyrus Mulkey, sheriff of Inyo County, California from 1871 to 1874. [15]