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Map showing the location of Sacramento Valley Railroad, Cal. Sacramento, Septr., 1854; T.D. Judah, Chief Engineer
Sketch map of the first railroad in California, with projected extensions to San Francisco, Sonora, and Tehama, made by the engineer who built the Sacramento Valley Railroad.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
1895. 44 sheet(s). Bound.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
1915 Vol. 1. 97 sheet(s). Map of congested district. Bound.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
1915 Vol. 2. 103 sheet(s). Bound.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
1915 - Apr 1950 Vol. 1. 117 sheet(s). 078. Map of congested district.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
1915 - Dec 1950 Vol. 2. 112 sheet(s). 079.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
1915; Republished 1952 Vol. 1. 95 sheet(s). 35 X 29 cm. Bound.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
1915 ; Republished 1952 Vol. 2. 82 sheet(s). 35 X 29 cm. Bound.
Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route
"The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were debating the possibilities of building a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific. The Army Appropriations Act of 1853 provided for the completion of railroad surveys to determine possible routes. This map, issued in 1858 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, depicts the United States west of the Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War. California and Texas were at this time the only Western states. Western regions initially became part of the United States as military departments, which only later were organized into territories and, eventually, states. The map uses colors to show the military departments and Indian lands. Brown flags indicate military establishments. In the lower right are listed all of the important surveys and expeditions that contributed to the mapping of the West, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to a survey of roads between the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers undertaken by two army officers in 1855. The routes of these expeditions are shown on the map. The map was compiled by then-Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren of the Army Topographical Engineers and a future Union general in the Civil War. Davis later became president of the Confederacy and a bitter adversary of President Abraham Lincoln under whose leadership, ironically, work on the transcontinental railroad began in 1862." World Digital Library.
Map showing the different routes surveyed for the Union Pacific Rail Road between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley,
"President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad. The Union Pacific was to lay track westward from a point near Omaha, Nebraska, toward Ogden, Utah; the Central Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento, California. The Union Pacific began construction on December 2, 1863. This map, submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan on September 18, 1865, by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers, shows the different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska surveyed for the Union Pacific. Based on a map submitted by Silas Seymour, consulting engineer to the Union Pacific, the map shows five alternative routes with probable connections to existing railroads. Also shown are relief by hachures, county boundaries, drainage, vegetation, and roads. Nebraska was at this time a territory; it became the 37th state on March 1, 1867. Under the authorizing legislation, the railroad was not to have grades or curves exceeding the maximums on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the first U.S. railroad to cross the Appalachians. This profile shows the careful attention paid by the engineers to the steepness of the grades on alternative routes considered for the line. The horizontal scale shown is one mile to one inch (1.61 kilometers to 2.54 centimeters), and the vertical scale is 60 feet to one inch (18.28 meters to 2.54 centimeters). The profile accompanied a topographic map showing five different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska, which was part of a report submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers." World Digital Library. Detailed map of Nebraska showing relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, and railroads.
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 23, 1904
CONCERNING CALIFORNIA OBSERVATIONS AFTER FIFTY YEARS RESIDENCE IN THE GOLDEN STATE To the Editor of The Journal Your reporter wished me to give him an interview as a representative from California I am very sorry that my time is so limited I cannot do so but I have been so warmly received by the old friends of fifty years ago and their descendants that I cannot refrain from sending you this communication hop ing it may be of some interest to your numerous readers California has an extent of nearly ten degrees from north to south and as it extends from N W to S E its length is about SOO miles with an average width of 225 miles Its productions climate and scenery are more varied than on the Atlantic side of the continent You will notice in the very heart of this great State the Sacramento Valley drained by the Sac ramento river from the north and the San Joaquin river from the south This valley is more than 400 miles long and fifty miles wide and comprises 12SOO OOP acres It is enclosed on the north by the Siskiyou mountains on the east by the Sierra Nevada
Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 29, 1910
obituary her 16 1916 William J I NoTVorthport Maine passed i f peacefully to his reward fc siwi le months and 27 days KC Mr Greenlaw North fjhe death _f js most highly re Vind the sympatny of ll it entire ccmmunity is ff V Waved family Mr 1 third son of the late fc v Ktherine Staples Green IW irn in the town of Waldo 1 vs where the E 1 until he was grown to 1 ge was educated in native town and at the f minary Kents Hill J iving the seminary he veral years When J was 21 years of age the Knox Maine It was fii r hat the West appealed spirit and accordingly in Sacramento California 0r wiated in business for 1 rothers Alonzo and tin gone there several years went to Nevada and M miik business first at 0C veral months later vs h n he remained un 1865 he came back to ji nr Gy to Northport moved during his r decided to settle it nil bought the farm v as part owner and the ianiel A Wad 1S68 he was unit Miss Clara J Pres ide Joel and Kath same town