Placer County Local News: History


All Local History News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

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10/19/2021
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Placer County was founded in the Gold Rush, but it was water that made the county run.

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10/15/2021
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More than 50 years after the Santa Barbara oil spill, the state is still hit with oil disasters. Here’s why.

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10/01/2021
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Created by Assembly Bill 3121, the group is exploring the repercussions of slavery on Black people in California.

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09/09/2021
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When California adopted the recall law 110 years ago, it was to keep big money out of politics. Now billionaire donors are dominating this year's gubernatorial recall campaign on both sides.

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08/30/2021
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The next governor of California could win election with far fewer votes that the incumbent governor in the state's recall vote Sept. 14. How did the recall process become so undemocratic?

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08/26/2021
In the season three premiere of FOX Nation’s “Monsters Across America,” a Tahoe legend makes its debut. Host Kacie McDonnell, who travels across the country in search of “monster sightings,” heads to Lake Tahoe to learn more about Tahoe Tessie.

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08/25/2021
Thousands of students have entered Roseville Adult School’s doors over the last 100 years for many reasons. But the driving force behind each person’s commitment to attend school as an adult has remained constant: to create opportunities and to better themselves for their futures.

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08/02/2021
The city of Auburn is in negotiations to make room for a museum in the old city hall building where the Auburn Chamber of Commerce operates. The Western States Trail Museum will recognize the historic elements of the trans-Sierra passage, which ran from Carson City to Sacramento.

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07/15/2021
The Placer County Museums Division is looking for new faces to join its team of museum volunteers and docents. Spots are open at the Bernhard Museum Complex, DeWitt History Museum, Gold Rush Museum, Placer County Museum in Auburn, Griffith Quarry Museum in Penryn, and the brand-new Fruitvale School Museum in Lincoln.

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06/27/2021
In 1983, writes Matthew Renda in the Tahoe Quarterly, Max Jones was testing out his new off-road bike on the Tunnel Creek Trail near Incline Village. He began the laborious process of clearing fallen trees and other debris from the scenic ridgeline route.

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06/23/2021
A crowd of about 150 attended the inaugural Placer County Juneteenth Celebration and Picnic Saturday at Johnson Springview Park in Rocklin. Friends and neighbors braved the morning heat to commemorate the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery in 1865.

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06/21/2021
A total of 18 Placer County museums from Roseville to North Lake Tahoe are participating in this year’s Heritage Trail Tour, taking place now through Sept. 5.

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06/13/2021
A Fourth of July tradition, the annual pancake breakfast presented by the Native Sons of the Golden West and Native Daughters of the Golden West returns after being cancelled due to COVID-19.

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05/31/2021
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The Placer County court system was founded in 1851. Here's how it works today.

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05/30/2021
Granite Bay resident Fusako Takahashi, 94, pushed for the stamp to honor the Japanese-American soldiers whose WWII fighting unit became the most decorated in U.S. military history.

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04/18/2021
In the early 1920s, the powerful railroad company's interests happened to coincide with the natural world’s, when Nevada farmers wanted to use Lake Tahoe water for irrigation.

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04/15/2021
DeWitt Community Complex President Ramona Brockman presented a request to the Placer County Board of Supervisors for an extension of the provision keeping the DeWitt Theater from potentially being demolished.

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04/06/2021
Vigorous springtime storms are not unusual in the Tahoe Sierra, but 43 years ago a nasty squall blew into the region with disastrous results.