3. It was originally thought to be an island and was named after a mythical Amazon queen named Califa who lived on an island.
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5. Home to Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the continental United States.
6. Just to the east of Mt. Whitney is Death Valley, which is the lowest point in the continental U.S. at 282 ft. below sea level.
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8. Their diets varied depending on where they lived and included acorns, shell fish, trout, salmon, etc.
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10. CHAPTER 4. STRIKING IT RICH In 1848 James Marshall finds gold at Fort Sutter and starts the California gold rush of 1849. As a result of the population boom during the gold rush, murder rates raise to an extreme amount, especially in Los Angeles to a rate of 1,240 per 100,000, which is an all time record in America to this day.
11. CHAPTER 4. STRIKING IT RICH As in most of America at the time, racial issues where present in California as well. Many lynchings took place to quell the rising crime in California, however, Mexicans where executed in drastically grater number than any other race. There was also a tax imposed on any foreigner in the minefields of $20 per month which drove thousands of Mexicans away from the mines.
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13. A drainage act was passed in 1887 to gather funds for irrigation and drainage which the state was able to collect $100,000.
14. William Hammond Hall was the state engineer in charge of surveying the state’s water and disperse it correctly.
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16. He was responsible for acquiring water for Los Angeles by making aqueducts and dams to obtain water from the Owens River.
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18. Willis Polk was an American architect that came to San Francisco from Jacksonville, Illinois. Polk build commercial and residential buildings before and after the earthquake of 1906. The James C. Flood Mansion is one example of his works located on Nob Hill.
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