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Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is a state park in Monterey County, California, near the area of Big Sur on the state's Central Coast. It covers approximately 1,006 acres (4.07 km 2) of land. The park is centered on the Big Sur River. It has been nicknamed a "mini Yosemite." [1]
Day Island in a USGS topographic map from 1951 [2] USGS aerial imagery of Day Island in 2021. Day Island is an island at the mouth of the Petaluma River in San Pablo Bay (an embayment of San Francisco Bay). [3][4][5][6][7][8] It is part of Marin County, California. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Its coordinates are 38°06′13″N 122°29′26 ...
A California Sea Products Company whaling station operated in Trinidad from 1920 to 1926. During its operations, 1,140 whales were killed and processed. [21] [22] Trinidad resident Henry A. Boyes was a United States Marine Corps first sergeant with the 5th Marine Regiment during World War II (1941–1945).
Monrovia is the fourth-oldest general-law city in Los Angeles County and the L.A. Basin (after Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Pasadena, all now charter cities [6]). Incorporated in 1887, it has grown from a sparse community of orange ranches to a residential community of over 37,000. Monrovia, 1892 (Myrtle Avenue, looking north) In 1769, the ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
The culture of California, also referred to as Californian culture, encompasses various social norms, traditions, and customs in California, including literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, food, sports, religion, law, alongside other beliefs and cultural expressions. Californian culture has been shaped by the history of California ...
FIPS code. 06-31470. GNIS feature ID. 277527. Guerneville (/ ˈɡɜːrnvɪl, - nivɪl /) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, California, United States. The town is historically known as a logging community. It was founded by the Guerne family in the 1850s.
Lemoore (formerly, La Tache and Lee Moore's) [5] is a city in Kings County, California, United States. Lemoore is located 7.5 miles (12 km) west-southwest of Hanford, [8] at an elevation of 230 feet (70 m). [5] It is part of the Hanford-Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA Code 25260).