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Basque explorers arrived in what is now California in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. [1] There is a significant presence of Basque-Americans in the Bakersfield area. Many of Bakersfield's oldest and most historic restaurants are Basque , [ 2 ] including Woolgrowers, Noriega's, Pyrenees, Benji's, and Narducci's.
Basques have been living in Northern Nevada for over a century and form a population of several thousand. Basque immigrants first came in the mid-1800s during the Gold rush. The Basques have also been closely-tied to sheep herding in Nevada and neighboring states. The Basque-American culture is especially prominent in the town of Winnemucca.
Basque immigration peaked after the Spanish Carlist Wars in the 1830s—Ebro customs relocated to the Pyrenees—and in the 1860s following the discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. The current day descendants of Basque immigrants remain most notably in this area and across the Sierras into the ...
During the 1570s, the Basque fisheries in America employed more than 6000 people and required more than 200 ships. [1] In Buitres, 900 sailors come aboard 15 ships every summer. [1] The surplus oil production is sold in England. However, most historians still note a gradual decline in whaling, while other scholars argue shows that it was sudden ...
Nevada City c. 1856 by Julia Ann Rudolph. The settlement was originally a Nisenan village named Ustumah. [6] [7]European Americans first settled Nevada City in 1849, [8] during the California Gold Rush, as Nevada (Spanish for "snow-covered", a reference to the snow-topped mountains in the area).
American period: An enlargeable map of the United States after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. American period: An enlargeable map of the United States after the Compromise of 1850. American period: The Nataqua Territory extension into California (light yellow), and Nevada's Roop County claim (light yellow area plus area outlined in ...
The Basques (Basque: Euskaldunak) are an indigenous ethno-linguistic group mainly inhabiting the Basque Country (adjacent areas of Spain and France).Their history is therefore interconnected with Spanish and French history and also with the history of many other past and present countries, particularly in Europe and the Americas, where a large number of their descendants keep attached to their ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.