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Silveyville Masons Lodge 201 built in 1884 in Dixon, California. The first semi-permanent European settlement to develop in the Dixon area emerged during the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century when the community of Silveyville was founded in 1852 by Elijah Silvey [12] as a halfway point between the Pacific coast and the rich gold fields of Sacramento along a route commonly traveled ...
In 1975, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 was enacted, [21] establishing the right to collective bargaining for farmworkers in California, a first in U.S. history. [22] Individuals with prominent roles in farm worker organizing in this period include Cesar Chavez , Dolores Huerta , Larry Itliong , and Philip Vera Cruz .
The Sacramento River and its tributaries are a significant part of the geography of the Sacramento Valley. Rising in the various mountain ranges (the various Northern Coast Ranges to the west, the southern Siskiyou Mountains to the north, and the northern Sierra Nevada to the east) that define the shape of the valley, they provide water for agricultural, industrial, residential, and recreation ...
Milk Farm Restaurant was a restaurant in Dixon, California off I-80, that played a big part in Dixon's dairy economy during World War II. It was considered to be the city's landmark . History
California's oldest tree, ... Aaron Echols, conservation chair of the California Native Plant Society's Riverside/San Bernardino chapter, walks near the Palmer's oak. The tree is estimated to be ...
Jared Dixon (Joaquín) Sheldon (1813–1851) was born in Vermont and came to California in 1839. He spent one season in sea-otter hunting, and then worked building a house in Monterey . He formed a partnership with William Daylor (1810–1850).
California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make way for a sprawling solar ...