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The Channel Islands [note 1] are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands.
Once the Central Pacific Railroad was completed through Truckee in 1869, it became one of the city's main economic drivers; the Commercial Row district's businesses mainly catered to workers and travelers on the railroad. The Brickelltown district, meanwhile, housed and served workers in Truckee's other main industry, lumber.
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Monument to the Donner Party in Donner Memorial State Park. The Donner Party ordeal is arguably Truckee's most famous historical event. In 1846, a group of settlers from Illinois, originally known as the Donner-Reed Party but now usually referred to as the Donner Party, became snowbound in early fall as a result of several trail mishaps, poor decision-making, and an early onset of winter that ...
The Kruger House (or C.B. White House) is a historic building located at 10292 Donner Pass Road, in Truckee, Nevada County, northern California.. The mansion was built in 1873–1874 by W. H. Kruger, who was then a partner in the Truckee Lumber Company.
Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in Guernsey. Wharncliffe Books. ISBN 978-1845630089. Crossan, Rose-Marie (2015). Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey, 1560–2015. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1783270408. Jamieson, A.G. (1986). A people of the sea. Methuen. ISBN 978-0416405408. Sebire, Heather (2005). The Archaeology and Early history of the Channel ...
Trout Creek is a small tributary of the Truckee River draining about 5.1 square miles (13 km 2) along the eastern crest of the Sierra Nevada.It originates east of Donner Ridge and north of Donner Lake in the Tahoe–Donner Golf Course and flows through the town of Truckee, California, to its confluence with the Truckee River in Nevada County, California, just west of Highway 267.
Town Church, Guernsey, the parish church of St Peter Port at the heart of the town; Buildings The Royal Court House (La Cohue Royale), seat of the States of Guernsey; Hauteville House, Victor Hugo's house of exile, which is now a museum under the aegis of the city of Paris). National Trust of Guernsey Victorian shop [10]