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Hamilton City (formerly, Hamilton) [2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Glenn County, California, United States.The population was 1,759 at the 2010 census, down from 1,903 at the 2000 census.
Hamilton is a former settlement in Butte County, California, United States, and was its first permanent county seat. It was located on the west side of the Feather River , 15 miles (24 km) downstream from Oroville .
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet (1,300 m), overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory , the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top [ 4 ] observatory . [ 5 ]
Hamilton Field was named after First Lieutenant Lloyd Andrews Hamilton of the 17th Aero Squadron.Hamilton was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism in action" in Varsenare, Belgium, where he led a low level bombing attack on a German airdrome 30 miles (50 km) behind enemy lines on 13 August 1918.
In 2006, there were 23 families in residence, plus typically between two and ten visiting astronomers from the University of California campuses, who stay in dormitories while working at the observatory. The little town of Mount Hamilton atop the mountain has its own police and a post office, and until 2005 had a one-room K-8 school. [21]
The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States. It stretches from the eastern San Francisco Bay Area at its northern end to the Salinas Valley area at its southern end.
The Spanish name for Mt. Hamilton was the "Sierra de Santa Isabel" and the highest point was originally known as Mount Isabel instead of Mount Hamilton. William Henry Brewer and his fellow geologist, Charles F. Hoffmann, did not know it already had a name, and named it Mt. Hamilton when they climbed it on August 26, 1861, although they did place Isabel Valley on their map to the east of the ...
Born in Jacksonville, Illinois, Hamilton received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1974 and a cum laude Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1976. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was a deputy public defender in the California Office of the Public Defender from 1976 to 1980, [ 2 ] and briefly served as a manager of EEO ...