Old Sacramento and Downtown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Sacramento and Downtown write by . This book was released on 2006. Old Sacramento and Downtown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The discovery of gold launched a rush of humanity to California's Sierra foothills and many of those miners and minerals flowed into a settlement that grew where the American and Sacramento Rivers meet. Today downtown and Old Sacramento, a 28-acre state historic district, are thriving, graced by such treasures as the restored State Capitol Building, the art deco Tower Bridge, and scores of historic structures and attractions like the Leland Stanford Mansion and the California State Railroad Museum.
Old Sacramento and Downtown
Old Sacramento and Downtown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Sacramento and Downtown write by Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center. This book was released on 2006-06-21. Old Sacramento and Downtown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The discovery of gold launched an unprecedented rush of humanity to Californias Sierra foothills. Many of those miners and minerals flowed as naturally as the waterways into a settlement that grew where the American and Sacramento Rivers meet. The Sacramento River, the main traffic artery between the mines and San Francisco Bay, was soon flanked by a burgeoning Embarcadero and commercial district that became Sacramento City in 1849. Paddlewheel riverboats, like the New World, carried goods, passengers, and great wealth. Besting all jealous rivals, Sacramento became the state capital, and a wealthy merchants residence was transformed into the governors mansion. Today downtown and Old Sacramento, a 28-acre state historic district, are thriving, graced by such treasures as the restored State Capitol Building, the art deco Tower Bridge, and scores of historic structures and attractions like the Leland Stanford Mansion and the California State Railroad Museum.
Guide to Old Sacramento
Guide to Old Sacramento - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guide to Old Sacramento write by Robert Miller. This book was released on 1976. Guide to Old Sacramento available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Sacramento write by California. Division of Beaches and Parks. This book was released on 1958. Old Sacramento available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Past for the Present: Old Sacramento Historic District Oral History Project
A Past for the Present: Old Sacramento Historic District Oral History Project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Past for the Present: Old Sacramento Historic District Oral History Project write by Lisa Cordova Prince. This book was released on 2011. A Past for the Present: Old Sacramento Historic District Oral History Project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In post World War II America, cities across the nation witnessed dramatic changes to their urban landscapes as federal urban renewal policies initiated redevelopment projects designed to invigorate and reshape deteriorating city cores. Early policies encouraged wide-scale demolition to renew blighted inner cities. Historic preservation policy was yet in its infancy in terms of authoritative advocacy. Citizens interested in preserving their historic buildings and sites had little recourse but to helplessly watch as city planners and their redevelopment agencies directed bulldozers to raze their neighborhoods and downtowns. In Sacramento, California, preservationists and historians organized to save the oldest section of the city, long regarded as one of the West's most historic. Meanwhile, city and state officials were implementing modernizing plans, which looked toward the future, not the past. In the end, a compromise between all interested parties created one of the nation's first historic districts using urban renewal funds. A Past for the Present is an oral history-based research project that explores the creation and planning of the Old Sacramento Historic District. It seeks to examine Sacramento as a case study of how one city utilized federal urban renewal policies to both reshape its central core and preserve its most historic district. In addition to primary and secondary sources, the project utilizes recorded interviews with three individuals who played principal roles in the creation and development of the Old Sacramento Historic District. While institutional documentation about this subject is available to researchers, there are few records of personal experience from individuals who had leading roles in shaping the historic district. A Past for the Present will fill that gap.
