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Rancho New Helvetia, in Spanish Rancho Nueva Helvetia, was a 48,839-acre (197.64 km 2) Mexican land grant issued in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to John Sutter. It encompassed lands in present-day Sacramento County , Sutter County , and Yuba County, California .
We started in New York, but after our first baby's open heart surgery, we returned to the Bay Area, where I'd met my husband Lynn. We missed our laid-back, California progressive-style life, and ...
The Jackson Downtown Historic District, in Jackson, California, is a 14 acres (5.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It runs roughly along Main St. from 215 Main St. to 14 Broadway. The district included 58 contributing buildings. [1] The contributing buildings include, among others:
Jackson (formerly, Botilleas, Botilleas Spring, Bottileas, Bottle Spring, [9] and Botellas) [10] is a city in and the county seat of Amador County, California. Its population was 4,651 at the 2010 census , up from 3,989 at the 2000 census .
In 1925 the Sisters established the Academy of St. Ursula at "Marygrove" near Kingston Point in Ulster County, New York, and in 1943 began to staff St. Joseph's parochial school in the city of Kingston. [6] In 1966 the Academy of St. Ursula became John A. Coleman Catholic High School, which in 1968 moved to a larger campus in Hurley.
The organization was founded in Pioneer Hall, a historic building located in Jackson, California. [4] The first meeting took place on September 11, 1886, in the basement of the Hall. The meeting was called by Lilly O. Reichling. Approximately 20 women attended the first meeting. [1] The hall is a California Historical Landmark.
Amador County had a large Serbian-American population in the late 1800s due to the California Gold Rush, and the county's Serbs established the St. Sava Church Organization of Amador County in 1886–87; the organization was responsible for purchasing land for and building the church, and the effort was led by Sevastijan Dabović.
Ursula, Margravine of Brandenburg (17 October 1488 – 18 September 1510) was a German noblewoman. [1] She was born in Berlin, the daughter of John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, and Margarethe of Saxony. At age 19, on 16 February 1507 she married Duke Henry V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1479–1552). [2] They had three children: