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Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park is a historical site preserving an 1895 alternating current (AC) hydroelectric power station—one of the first in the United States. Before the Folsom powerhouse was built nearly all electric power houses were using direct current (DC) generators powered by steam engines located within a very few miles of ...
A Folsom spearpoint approximately life size. The Folsom tradition is a Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America from c. 10800 BCE to c. 10200 BCE. The term was first used in 1927 by Jesse Dade Figgins, director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. [2]
Folsom Powerhouse Station A is a historical building in Sacramento, California. The Folsom Powerhouse Station is a California Historical Landmark No. 633.2 listed on March 3, 1958. Station A was constructed by the Sacramento Electric Power and Light Company in 1894. Folsom Powerhouse Station A is located at the northeast corner of 6th and H ...
The Murer House and Gardens in Folsom, California is a building, designed and built by Giuseppe Murer in the Italian Renaissance architecture style, [3] built in 1927. The house currently operates as a museum, and showcases the history of Italian immigration to the US and the early formation of Folsom. [4]
The site contains the most extensive Folsom culture campsite yet found with calibrated radiocarbon dates of c. 12,300 B.P. (10,300 BCE). [3] Artifacts were also found from subsequent Archaic and Late pre-historic periods. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark on January 20, 1961. [2]
Folsom site or Wild Horse Arroyo, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 29CX1, is a major archaeological site about 8 miles (13 km) west of Folsom, New Mexico. It is the type site for the Folsom tradition , a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 BC and 10000 BC .
In the early 19th century, the famous fur trapper Jedediah Smith explored the area east of Sacramento, between the settlement at the confluence now known as Old Sacramento, and Folsom. The area follows the course of the American River, and is rich in a diversity of wildlife. In the late 19th century, the trail was marked out by a prototype ...
The property, minus the turntable stands, were donated to the City of Folsom in 1970. In 1972, Ashland Station building of the Sacramento, Placer, and Nevada Railroad was moved to the site. The depot and freight yard were listed as a California Historical Landmark under the name Folsom Terminal in 1956. [ 2 ]