Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Municipal Ordinances, Rules, and Regulations Pertaining to Public Health Adopted 1910-1914 by Cities of the U.S. Having a Population of Over 10,000 in 1910
Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Municipal Ordinances and Regulations Pertaining to Public Health ...
Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
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The Codes and Statutes of California, as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Twenty-sixth Session of the Legislature, 1885: Supplement, compiled by F. P. Deering and J. H. Deering, Jr
Author: CaliforniaDigest of the Laws of California
Author: CaliforniaStatutes of California
Author: CaliforniaRiver City and Valley Life
Author: Christopher J. CastanedaPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Often referred to as “the Big Tomato,” Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or “New Switzerland”). It was at Sutter’s sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area’s warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government’s major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while “Old Sacramento” revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento’s pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento’s identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.
The Statutes of California and Amendments to the Codes
Author: CaliforniaThe General Laws of the State of California, from 1850 to 1864, Inclusive
Author: CaliforniaThe Public City
Author: Philip J. EthingtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520927469
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat American urban politics as the expression of social-group community experience. Instead, he maintains in The Public City, social-group identities of race, class, ethnicity, and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse.
The Code of the City of Sacramento, California, 1959
Author: Sacramento (Calif.)Publisher:
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Category : Municipal charters
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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