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US 50 near Folsom. East end. 38°41′03″N 121°10′45″W / 38.6841°N 121.1792°W / 38.6841; -121.1792. Folsom Boulevard is a major east–west arterial in Sacramento County, California, United States. Its western terminus is at Alhambra Boulevard in the East Sacramento section of Sacramento and its eastern terminus is at ...
Glen Stewart Godwin (born June 26, 1958) is an American fugitive and convicted murderer who was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on December 7, 1996, nine years after he escaped from Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California, where he was serving a 26-years-to-life sentence.
The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior. Sacramento was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border.
The Nisenan tribe of Native Americans had long inhabited the area. [7] The Gold Rush of 1849 brought violence, disease and overwhelming loss for the tribes. [8]Joseph Libbey Folsom purchased Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff, and laid out the town called Granite City, mostly occupied by gold miners seeking their fortune in the ...
209, 916. Congressional districts. 3rd, 6th, 7th. Website. saccounty.gov. Sacramento County (/ ˌsækrəˈmɛntoʊ / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,585,055. [6] Its county seat is Sacramento, [7] which has been the state capital of California since 1854.
January 7, 1987. (#86003577) 10195 Alta Mesa Rd. 38°23′13″N 121°13′25″W / 38.387070°N 121.223645°W / 38.387070; -121.223645 (Alta Mesa Farm Bureau Hall) Wilton. The hall was destroyed by fire in 1987, [6] although the detached restroom building still stood as of June 2014.
Folsom Street in Downtown San Francisco. Folsom Street is a street in San Francisco which begins perpendicular to Alemany Boulevard in San Francisco's Bernal Heights district and ends perpendicular to the Embarcadero on the San Francisco Bay. For its southern half, Folsom Street runs north–south, but it turns northeasterly at 13th street.
The Gold Line is a light rail transit line in the Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) light rail system. Operating between Sacramento Valley and Historic Folsom stations, the line runs primarily east-west in Sacramento (including downtown, Midtown, East Sacramento), portions of unincorporated Sacramento County, Rancho Cordova, Gold River and Folsom.