Written by Doug Noble for presentation at the Bell Tower on the Sesquicentennial of California’s statehood. On December 3rd last, California stood proudly and knocked on the doors of congress, the noise loudly resounding like no other before it throughout…
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Who Was Daniel W. Carmichael?
Daniel Webster Carmichael was born in 1867 in Atlanta, Georgia and came to California in 1885. On January 12, 1892 he married Myrtle Roena Robb, who was born in Nevada. In 1909 Carmichael purchased 2,000 acres of “land composed of…
Placerville’s Living Christmas Tree
Each year the City of Placerville installs lights on the tall redwood tree that stands on the northeast corner of Bedford Avenue and Main Streets, next to a building that was the post office and then the the District…
Gekkeikan Sake – they tested the water
Over the past centuries California has lured people to it for its many assets: its climate, its farm lands and, most of all its gold. Today the gold is still here, not only in the ground but also in the…