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W hen I set out about put-ting this magazinetogether, I had three

goals in mind: Make it inform-ative without bogging downthe reader with too muchdetail; Makeit fun to read;Give thereader asense of dis-covery.

As you

hold this in your hands,know it wouldnt havebeen possible without theefforts of many organizations,including the Folsom Histori-cal Society, Folsom city staff,Cindy Baker, Folsom-El Dora-do-Sacramento HistoricalRailroad Association, the American River Natural Histo-ry Association, Clarksville

Region Historical Society, the Water Education Foundationand the Sacramento County Historical Society.

In these pages youll find the

results of hours of research, writing and gathering. Cover-ing such a broad topic as her-itage meant I couldnt includeeverything into these pages so

I encourage you to visit ourlocal museums to learn more.

Read the Telegraph online atFolsomTelegraph.com andEDHTelegraph.com.

Marking theend of majorrenovationson SutterStreet inFolsom, thou-sands turnedout for a rib-bon cuttingat Wool andSutter streetson May 7,2011. The

street hasgonethroughmany lookssince the1850s.COURTESY

CITY OF FOLSOM

DonChaddockEditor

A look at our past reveals much hasnt changedCELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE MARCH 2014 3INDEX

WHATS INSIDE

Agriculture 7Mining 9

Railroad 11Domestic Life 13Education 18The Arts 20Business 22Water 24Public Safety 26ON THE COVER:The Rainbow Bridge is an icon inthe region. The bridge opened in1917 to accommodate automo-biles. It was the only option forcrossing the river until the LakeNatoma Crossing opened in 1999,according to city officials (Cour-tesy City of Folsom). Other pho-tos: (top) Train engineer WilliamNichols, 1911; historic photo oftruss bridge and rainbow bridge;Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison,1968; Folsom City Manager CyThomas and Mayor Jack Kipp,1970; train at Wool and Sutterstreets, 1882 (all courtesy FolsomHistorical Society).Published by The FolsomTelegraph, March 2014.

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4 MARCH 2014 CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGEOUR HISTORY

Familiar names built the townon the banks of the river

In 1856, two things hap-pened. The lots for the pro-posed Granite City sold thefirst day they went on the auc-tion block and the Granite City Journal published its first edi-tion of the newspaper. Both would change their names in

honor of Joseph Libby Folsom, who died the previous year. Another major player in

founding what would becomethe town of Folsom is William Alexander Leidesdorff, whoowned a large strip of landalong the American Riverknown as Rancho Rio de Los Americanos.

Leidesdorff granted land William Alexander Leides-

dorff became a naturalized

Mexican citizen in 1844 andhed earned enough money as atrader to purchase land in Yer-

ba Buena (later San Francisco)and build a warehouse.

As a citizen, he was granted

eight Spanish leagues, or morethan 35,000 acres, known asRio de Los Americanos.

Leidesdorff was very involved in San Francisco, serv-ing on the first city council, thefirst school board and acting asthe city treasurer. He alsobrought the first steam boat tothe bay (the double sidewheel-er Sitka).

Unfortunately, he never hada chance to do anything withhis large land grant. On May 18,1848, even as the first reports of gold strikes on the AmericanRiver came filtering into SanFrancisco, he died at the age of 38.

Who was Joseph Folsom?Capt. Joseph Folsom arrived

in California with the Steven-son Regiment in 1847. At theconclusion of the Mexican War,

he remained in San Francisco with the quartermaster depart-ment.

By 1849, Folsom becameinterested in capitalizing onthe future potential of Califor-nia holdings promised by therich gold strikes. He had pur-chased several lots in San Fran-cisco and had become interest-ed in the estate of the late

William A. Leidesdorff, whopassed away the previous year.Folsom traveled to the West

Indies to track down Leides-dorffs heirs. There he struck adeal with Anna Maria Spark, who never married Leides-dorffs father but who had beengranted an act of legitimizing the children under Danish law.

The problem? After paying Spark $75,000 for LeidesorffsSan Francisco holdings as well

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Clarksville was foundedaround 1849-50, according to members of theClarksville Region Historic Soci-ety, near the Mormon Tavern. Itquickly became a commercialand social center for the area.

According to an El DoradoHills Telegraph article datedFeb. 4, 2009, Clarksville wasalways a small town and despitepreviously published reports,

the population never exceededmore than a few hundred.The town itself is just a tiny

little bit but the town was a serv-ice center for the huge areaaround it. Early on, it was nevera grand town, Melinda Peak, with Peak and Associates, toldthe Telegraph. Its always beena small town. It happened to beon the major road White Rock Road that went on to Plac-erville.

The decline of the town start-

ed when the Folsom-to-ShingleSprings branch of the railroadended up bypassing Clarksville,rather than going through it asoriginally hoped, she said.

The final nail in the coffin of Clarksville was the rerouting of Highway 50.

After that, it wasnt even able

to support a gas station, Peak said. When the new freeway came in, it cut the town off completely.

According to literature fromthe historic society, the Mor-mon Tavern offered hospitality for gold seekers and was builtby a Mormon named Morgan in

1848 or 1849 in the area justsouth of the present communi-ty of El Dorado Hills. The Tavernlater acted as a remount stationduring the short life of the Pony Express, from April 1860through October 1861.

A man named Clarkson had astopping place near MormonTavern known as Clarksons Vil-lage, according to the historicsociety. It was near the junc-

tion of the stagecoach roadfrom Sacramento and thefreight road east to the Sierramines which brought people,news, supplies and mail to thegold field. The town soon boasted four hotels in its hey-day. By 1855 a post office wasestablished there, and in theprocess the postal authoritiesrenamed the town Clarksville.

Agriculture slowly replacedthe gold seekers and ranching became the major industry. The

towns commerce sufferedgreatly when in 1864 the rail-road bypassed Clarksville.

Whats known as El DoradoHills today is essentially built onthe bones of the town of Clarksville.

In the 1960s, developer AlanLindsey envisioned El DoradoHills as a master-planned com-munity. The original masterplan, prepared by architect Vic-

tor Gruen, covered the areagenerally north of Highway 50but now encompasses bothsides of the highway. It wasmeant to be a group of residen-tial villages and the planscalled for a business park, twogolf courses, community parks,schools, a community shopping center and small commercialcenters in each village.

Town Center and other shop-ping areas are examples of modern El Dorado Hills.

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The Kyburz home, as seen in 2009, is a reminder ofClarksville, the town pre-dating modern day El DoradoHills. The ghost town of Clarksville sits on private propertybehind Town Center and is not open to the public.

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CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE MARCH 2014 7AGRICULTURE

W hen dreams of striking itrich didnt come to passfor many gold seekers,they instead turned their handsto working the land.

Within the limits of the Lei-desdorff (land) grant (presentday Folsom), farmers were faced with uncertain titles to the landuntil the matter was settled inthe courts, according to the

book, The Lower American Riv-er: Prehistory to the Parkway,published by the American RiverNatural History Association.

Newell Kane, a pioneer farmer,described the area in 1853. Theland was covered with brush andtrees, mostly white oak, and wildanimals were plentiful, the Cali-fornia lion and wild cattle caus-ing at time great fear among thesettlers.

According to the history asso-ciation, Joseph Routier came to

Folsom specifically for the pur-pose of superintending theplanting of a large vineyard andorchard for Capt. Folsom.

In 1853, he moved into the oldLeidesdorff adobe and began histask. At the request of Folsomsheirs, he carried on with theproject even after Folsoms deathin 1856.

Routier set a precedent in cul-

tivating grapes rather than wheat, according to the book.Because of his success, the American River region wasamong the first in California toestablish large-scale farming inorchards and vineyards, thebook states.

In 1863, Folsoms heirs soldRoutier the acreage on which hetoiled. He later grew prunes, wal-nuts, apricots, peaches, almondsand oranges. He also produced

Many turn from mining to working th


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8 MARCH 2014 CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGEAGRICULTURE

his own wine and in 1876, builta fruit-drying and canning plant on his ranch. According

to the history association, theplant processed 40,000 cans of fruit each year.

In later years, ranches werepopular in Folsom and ElDorado Hills. Even today, placenames such as Dan Russell Arena, Empire Ranch and Brig-gs Ranch honor the cattleranching heritage of the region.

In a 2008 interview with theTelegraph, Melinda Peak, with

Peak and Associates and amember of the ClarksvilleRegion Historic Society, saidcattle ranchers often drovetheir herds up to the Tahoe areafor grazing.

This whole region, the grassdries up, so you have to have asecond range to be successful,she said.

The Kyburz family had cattleout at Clarksville (present-day El Dorado Hills). Their sum-mer range was up at what is

now the town of Kyburz, shesaid.

Today, other than somestrawberry fields on Oak Avenue, the only working farmis Zittel Farms, on Folsom Auburn Road. Theyve been inoperating since 1967.

We are the last working farm located in Folsom, theZittels proudly state on their website (zittelfarms.com). We

are located on Folsom-AuburnRoad near American RiverCanyon. We sell produce(from) spring (to) fall from ourroadside produce stand locat-ed at the last entrance off of

Oak Avenue near the house.El Dorado County is home to

a new farming venture, ElDorado Hills Natural Farms.

Billed as the only chicken,fruit and vegetable farm on the

western slope of El DoradoCounty (producing) farmfresh eggs and nutritious agri-cultural products, according to the companys website (edh-farms.com).

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COURTESY PHOTOS FOLSOM HISTORICAL SOCIETY

This 1910 photo depicts hay threshing on the Mette Farm at Red Bank, in the area aboveMormon Island. Today, this area is typically under the waters of Folsom Lake, but the oldfoundations can be seen during times of extreme drought.

Ranches with cows and hors-es were plentiful after theGold Rush and before Fol-som and El Dorado Hillsstarted growing. Roanie,a dairy cow, is shown in this1954 photo at the Silber-horns Willow Spring Dairy.


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CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE MARCH 2014 9MINING

Theres gold in the hills around the American River and peoplecame in droves to find it after itsdiscovery at Sutters Mill in Colomain 1848.

The 49ers arrived, hoping to findtheir fortunes, but it wasnt a glam-orous life.

An 1850 letter depicts a more typi-cal day-in-the-life of a miner.

Dated March 3, 1850, the letter canbe found in The Golden Hub: Sacra-mento, published by 19th Century Books and compiled by Jody and RicHornor.

We reached this place at night onthe fourth day and in the morning found ourselves in the midst of thediggings.

We pitched our tents, shoulderedour picks and shovels and with panin hand, sallied forth to try our for-tunes at gold digging. We did nothave very good success being greenat mining, but by practice and obser-vation we soon improved some, and

found a little of the shining metal. Wm. Ramsdell and Cooke of our par-ty were sick with the scurvy andcould not work. This is the worst dis-ease that we have to contend with

here, it settles in the legs and ankles,making the person quite lame. Theskin turns purple and if not arrestedsoon, spots with decay and falls off,leaving a running sore.

It is brought on by eating salt foodand no vegetables. Many here are soanxious to get rich that they work,rain or snow, regardless of life orhealth.

Write to me and direct to Sacra-mento City, California. S. Schuflet.

A July 1851 letter, penned by Frank Marryat, describes their arrival.

We reached the Salmon Fall dig-gings about noon, and, without halt-ing, crossed a wooden bridge thathad been built here on the north fork of the American River; we paid fivedollars toll to its enterprising owner,and ascended the opposite hill. Theroad here became so uneven that wegot out of the wagon in preference tobeing pitched out, and we were keptvery busy in locking the wheels when

Gold drives fortune-seekers, shape


Estimated to have been taken in 1849 or 1850in Spanish Flats, these hard-working minersare using a long tom (or) a sluice box.

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it went down hill, and pushing behind when it went up.

Clarksville, later becoming El Dorado Hills,served as a supply source for miners headedup to the gold fields.

At one time, the town offered a Wells Fargobuilding, general store, school and hotels. It was founded in 1849 or 1850, according to Bet-ty January, with the Clarksville Region HistoricSociety.

(The town) was near the junction of thestagecoach road from Sacramento and thefreight road east to the Sierra mines whichbrought people, news, supplies, and mail tothe gold fields. The town soon became thecommercial and social center for the area,according to information published by thesociety.

But miners in Folsom were in for a change aslarger and more organized corporationsarrived, armed with machines. Large dredgesand hydraulic mining became commonplacein the region.

According to the Folsom Historical Society,

The Natomas Company, in 1908, boasted thelargest gold dredge in the U.S. with bucketsholding 13-and-a-half cubic feet and weighing 1,300 pounds each.

The No. 4 Dredge was able to scoop 400cubic yards of gravel per hour, running 80 per-cent of the time.

The tell-tale signs of dredging are the hills of rocks along the river and the lake.

Hydraulic mining used water cannons toblast hills sides, crushing them to mounds of rocks.

According to the historical society, In theearly 1900s, the Natomas Company began sur-face mining operations in the Folsom area.Dredgers extracted over $100 million dollars worth of gold between 1906 and 1962. In the1910s, Mather Air Force Base was establishedon dredger tailing land, later becoming animportant military training center.

Today, mining in Folsom is all but nonexist-ent, only mine-tailing piles evidence of Fol-soms once thriving industry.

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The practice of hydraulic mining used water cannons to strip the sides of mountains and hills. Many of themounds of rocks, such as those seen on Prairie City and White Rock roads, were caused by this technique.

Thebucketson thegolddredgesweremassive,as indi-cated inthisundatedphoto.Thescoopingbucketsweighed1,300poundseach.

The mammoth Natomas Company DredgeNo. 4, shown here in 1908, was the largestgold dredge in the U.S. at the time.


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A man with a vision, who died before hisdreams were fully realized, helped powerthe town destined tobecome Folsom.

Theodore Judah spokeof spanning the conti-nent with a railroad, anotion others thoughtlaughable, and hebecame instrumental inhelping the dream cometo pass, according toauthor Cindy Baker in thebook, First in the West:The Sacramento Valley Railroad.

With todays world of jet travel and super high- ways, it is easy to forgetthe tremendous role rail-roads played in Americanhistory, Baker writes.Travelers heading to

California before rail-roads had only twooptions, both long anddangerous. One involved

a long trip at sea (and)the other, the OverlandTrail, crossed deserts(and) remains today a

linear graveyard marked with the graves of those who perished fromstarvation, disease,

exhaustion and expo-sure.

According to Baker,Californians wanted rail-

roads as hundreds of thousands flooded induring the Gold Rush.

CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE MARCH 2014 11RAILROAD

This 1882 photoshows an old trainin Folsom. Thebuilding to theright in the back-ground is the oldFiremans Hall atthe intersection ofWool and Sutterstreets. The man inthe top hat andcane, in dark cloth-ing in the center, isAndrew Wagner,the first engineerof the railroad inFolsom.

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They quickly builtschools and churches andimpressive stone build-

ings to replace the tentsaloons and shacks of the(mining) camps, she writes. They wanted fast and reliable contact with the east. Letters fromloved ones took as long asthree months to arrive.

In 1854, Judah surveyeda route for the Sacramen-to Valley Railroad from RStreet in Sacramento andfollowing present day Fol-som Boulevard as far asNegro Bar (northwestfrom present day Fol-som).

Judah also acceptedemployment from Capt.Joseph Folsom, who wasby then the president of the SVRR, to survey andlay out the town tobecome Folsom.

In 1855, constructionbegan on the railroad but

by July, Folsom hadpassed away. CorneliusGarrison, a San Franciscobusinessman, replacedhim as president and William Tecumsah Sher-man became vice presi-dent.

Later, Sherman earnedhis place in history as ageneral in the Civil War.

The railroad linereached Folsom in Janu-ary 1856, with the SVRRofficially opening in Feb-ruary.

According to Baker,the Sacramento Valley

Railroad built Folsom.She said when the goldran out in the mining camps, such as Negro Barand later Mormon Island,the miners kept moving and the towns fadedaway.

The SVRR averted thatfate for Folsom, insteadsparking a commercialboom, she wrote.

Folsom ended upbecoming the end of theline for the railroad,instead of Marysville,making it the main distri-bution point for themines.

The railroad yardbecame the commercialfocal point of town, withbusinesses springing up

around it. During its peak,trains from Sacramentounloaded passengers and

freight in Folsom threetimes each day. Morethan 20 stage companiesset up shop in Folsom.

Eventually, the railroadfaded but there has beena revival of sorts.

Today, light rail, theSacramento County rapidtransit line, follows thesame route as the SVRR,ending in the Folsom His-toric District.

The historic turntable, which was used to turnaround rail cars, has beenrestored. The public plazahas been dubbed HistoricFolsom Station and a year-round farmers mar-ket was started in the spotduring summer 2013.

The Folsom-El Dorado-

Sacramento HistoricalRailroad Associationmuseum sits beside the

historic depot (housing the Folsom Chamber of Commerce) at WoolStreet.

Plans are under way topay homage to the townsrailroad past by con-structing a roundhousestyle building to house arestaurant.

Today the PlacervilleSacramento Valley Rail-road runs excursions outto the El Dorado County line.

The Folsom History Museum (on SutterStreet) and Pioneer Vil-lage (at Wool and Leides-dorff streets), are placespeople can learn moreabout the rich history of the area.

12 MARCH 2014 CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGERAILROADcontinued from 11

DON CHADDOCK THE TELEGRAPH FILE

The historic turntable, seen here with an ice rink being constructed around itfor the holidays in 2012, was restored and is a centerpiece of the revitalizedFolsom Historic District.


Historic foundations of the rail yard were excavat-ed to make way for the public plaza project in2009. Archeologists and historians sifted throughthe excavation site and many of the artifacts weredisplayed later at the Folsom History Museum.


The original turntable was excavated in 1996. Itwas later restored.


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Folsom and Clarksville(now El Dorado Hills)may not have beenthe rowdy old west townsdepicted in movies, butthey still had their shareof excitement.

Sensational or unusualentertainment was notthe only pleasure com-mon in early Folsom. One Sunday early in July 1876, a party of young ladies and gentlemendecided to visit AlabasterCave, a cavern between Folsom andMormon Island andmaintained by its owneras a commercial enter-prise, wrote Wray Bar-rows in A History of Fol-som, published by theFolsom Historical Society in 1966.

Excursions to the river were commonplace as were parades.

In the kitchenThe kitchen sure has

changed over the years.Early pioneers used

cast iron pots and acampfire. Later, wood-stoves served as sources

of heat and a place tocook supper.In the second half of the

19th century, gas burnerscould be cycled on and off to maintain an even moreprecise temperaturerange with baking resultscomparable to todaysstandards. Most kitchens were still wood or coalburning cast-iron behe-moths, even by the turn of the 20th century.

George Imhoff ran ageneral store at 805 SutterSt. at this time and he soldkitchen stoves, mailbox-es, nails, coffeepots andcanned goods, according to the Folsom HistoricalSociety.

It wasnt until the 1930s

when electric cooking technology began to takehold.

Under the street While Wray Barrows

wrote about a cavebetween Mormon Islandand Folsom, there wasanother sort of under-

ground world re-discov-ered in Folsom during thecitys work to renovateSutter Street.

Kelley Butcher, projectmanager for the designteam at REY Engineers,photographed andmapped a tunnel running from behind the FolsomHotel (at Riley and Sutterstreets), under Sutter andon out to the river. Thestory was published in a2010 piece in the Tele-graph, written by staff writer Laura Newell andeditor Don Chaddock,and photographed by Philip Wood.

It is not open to thepublic, but a few mediaoutlets were allowed

inside, with the Telegraphbeing the first.

Cindy Baker, a seniorhistorian with PAR Envi-ronmental Services inSacramento and a fourthgeneration Folsom resi-dent, told the Telegraphthe tunnels are a greatexample of the quality of

construction.The tunnels are really exciting. (They) are really bringing light to somereally important archeo-logical aspects of SutterStreet, said Baker. Theelements that they had inthe 1800s were very wellmade. It was a nice struc-ture.

She said there was a year-round stream thatran down behind the Fol-som Hotel and came outdown below the HistoricPower House. When peo-ple wanted to develop astreet (now Sutter Street),the ravine stopped them.The tunnels were creat-ed to let the water flow

CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE MARCH 2014 13DOMESTIC LIFE

Not a rowdy area, but theres still plen


These fine gents didnt mind playing cards with-out a floor in the Mormon Island mining camp,most likely prior to 1880. Mormon Island was oneof 30 or so camps in the area now flooded by theman-made Folsom Lake.


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better, she said. The structure was an early culvert to carry the water down.

According to Butcher, the city didnt have any record in theirsystem maps.

At one time, they had a glassfloor over the tunnel (in thebasement of the hotel), Butch-er said. There are reports of dances being held on the glassfloor a century ago.

When he went in for the firsttime, he said, I was awestruck. The archeologists are esti-mating it was built around1890.

Old messages can be foundscrawled on the walls of thetunnel.

Its six feet high from floor toceiling, he said. About halfway through Sutter, the brick changes. We believe the tunnelsuffered structural failure andhad to be rebuilt. It dropsdown to four-and-a-half feet.The floor (becomes) solid gran-

ite slabs. The amount of work

that went into this is amazing.He went on to say, On the

north side of Sutter Street, thetunnel turns back toward TheHacienda building. It turns intoa regular drainage culvert anddirects back into Riley Street.

The tunnel is 155-feet long.

Archeologist Mike Lawson

said there are two tunnelslocated in Folsoms HistoricDistrict. The one under SutterStreet, beginning under the oldFolsom Hotel and saloon, rep-resents three time frames.

The tunnels are interesting,Lawson said. They start off as

stone, then granite, brick and

concrete and go on to steel.He said the main tunnel

underneath the Folsom Hotel

started off as a ditch.They had to cover it to allow

traffic (to go) over it, he said. It

PHILIP WOOD TELEGRAPH FILE

Kelley Butcher, with REY Engineers, walks through the tun-nel re-discovered under Sutter Street in Folsom in 2010.


A Chinese Lion Dance was part of the fun of History Week,held Sunday, Aug. 14, 1983. The photo was snapped in frontof the Wells Fargo Building and the Folsom History Museumon Sutter Street. In the background, the Telegraph officescan be seen.

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BEFOREBEFORE 19 71907

PRESENTPRESENTDAYDAY

This historic bell willbe reinstalled in itsoriginal location atLandmark BaptistChurch. JourneyChurch has been itsmost recent home,

and in a sign of great Christian unity in theFolsom Community they are giving it toLandmark Baptist Church to be installed inits historically restored bell tower.


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was really well made.Rumors abound, link-

ing the tunnel to prostitu-tion, smuggling alcohol

during Prohibition andChinese immigrants hid-ing from thugs.

You get these storiesabout Prohibition tun-nels, running alcoholfrom the river to the hotel,but no. There is nothing particularly exciting, saidMelinda Peak, with Peak and Associates, an arche-ology firm. The othertunnels are probably mining features. They are basically enhancedgutters. I think peoplehave always known aboutit, but it never had any mystique to it.

She said the tunnels aredangerous and shouldnot be entered.

Things to doPhotographs of parades

on Sutter Street through-

out the last 150 years canbe found in the archivesof the Folsom History Museum, but many know the big one each year inFolsom as the CattleDrive.

Thousands come to theFolsom Historic Districtto watch the longhornsteer make their way down Sutter Street as thekickoff to the annual Fol-

som Pro Rodeo. The big

event happens aroundIndependence Day.

Learn more about therodeo and cattle drive atfolsomchamber.com orfolsomprorodeo.com.

A food festival wentmusical in Folsom. Start-ing out as A Taste of Fol-som, today its betterknown as Folsom Live, alarge music festival in theFolsom Historic District.

It draws thousands of

people and multiplebands and is usually heldthe third Saturday of Sep-tember. This year its slat-ed for Sept. 20, 2014.

Learn more at Folsom-Live.com.

In El Dorado Hills, findconcerts at Town Center,CSD Park and plenty of other community eventsand activities. Find moreat ElDoradoHillsCham-

ber.com or edhcsd.org.


This photo is taken looking up Sutter Street atRiley. The banner hanging over the street saysFiremens Convention at Folsom March 18,

1934.

Taken looking up Wool Street from the railroad tracks in Folsom, this horse-drawn trolley took tourists to the riverbank. It left regularly from the Folsomdepot in the 1880s. The building in the background is Firemans Hall, whichonce stood on Sutter Street but was torn down around 1910.

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18 MARCH 2014 CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGEEDUCATION

F rom the old schoolhouses as seen on TV shows to todaysmodern day high-tech

high school campuses,

Folsom and El DoradoHills have seen theirshare of changes in edu-cation.

Rather than attempt to

detail myriad changes(such as Folsom HighSchool once being locat-ed where Sutter Middle

School is today on Riley

From one-room schoolhouses to a high-tech col

COURTESY HOXSIE FAMILY COLLECTION

The Salmon Falls School, shown here circa 1884, was demolished in lateryears. In 1857, the school had 62 children in attendance. This photo shows

how the population of Salmon Falls had dwindled as miners left the area.

In 1967, the Los RiosCommunity CollegeDistrict acquired a 151-acre parcel of land for a

future college. At itsinception in 1991, FolsomLake Center began oper-ation at the current sitein Folsom. The first per-manent building wentup in 2001 and FolsomLake College now serves8,200 students amongthree campuses.

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Street), the photos speak for themselves.

Today Folsom is hometo Folsom Lake College,multiple private and pub-lic schools as well as threehigh schools (FolsomHigh, Vista del Lago Highand Folsom Lake High).

As of 2014, the college

was in the middle of con-structing a new gymnasi-um. There is a campus inRancho Cordova as well.

The college also offersan El Dorado County campus in Placerville.

Learn more about Fol-som Lake College at

www.flc.losrios.edu.


This Physiology and Hygiene text book datingback to 1906, at left, and Graded Lessons in Eng-lish, dated 1876 at right, were some of the manytextbooks used in schools during the time.

Shirley Holland drove the bus forchildren living at the prison (wheretheir parents worked). The photo

wasnt dated.

This 1918 photoshows the formerhomes of prisonemployees. AModel T SchoolBus, with a capac-ity of 20, was usu-ally driven by aprison guard totransport stu-

dents to school.

A 1886 photo of the Mormon Island School shows typical cloth-ing at the time. The school was established in 1852 by Mrs. RachelSterling Clark, a widow with a young daughter. The school wastorn down to make way for the Folsom Dam and the subsequentsubmerging of Mormon Island under the waters of Folsom Lake.


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20 MARCH 2014 CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGETHE ARTS

A rt is a broad area to cover andhistory is light on supplying information.The region started out much the

same as others, with traveling shows and the like, but informa-tion on such entertainment offer-ings has been sketchy.

According to the 110th anniver-sary edition of the Telegraph, in astory penned by the Gaslight The-atres Dan Welty, Theater, per se,has not been an important part of Folsoms heritage during its 110- year history. This paucity wasprobably due, not to a lack of inter-est, but to the proximity of a majorcity.

According to Weltys 1966 article,in its early years, Folsom had atheater which was the Durffey Theater on the (southwest) cornerof Sutter and Wool (streets). Thatbuilding later became the fire hall

which still used as a theater (and it

was) called Firemens Hall.Edwin Booth, brother of John

Wilkes Booth, once played in this

theater, ending his tour of theMother Lode broke as the nativescould not appreciate Shake-speare.

The Gaslight Theatre started in1961 or 1962, according to Weltysreference in the 1966 piece of itbeing in their fifth year.

The Gaslight Theatre is no longerin existence, but was located nextto the Sutter Club on Sutter Street.

A legend is bornOn Jan. 13, 1968, Johnny Cash

performed two concerts at FolsomPrison. The concerts were record-ed and released as an album laterthe same year, becoming big hitsfor The Man in Black.

Folsom became linked to Cashand his music. In February 2014,his daughter, Cindy, made the trek to Folsom for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Johnny Cash

Trail.

Music, laughs and tears keep region in h


This 1966 photo shows Mr. andMrs. Howard Chuck Chris-man entering the newly com-pleted Folsom Opera House.The play was You Never CanTell by George Bernard Shaw.

THE TELEGRAPH FILE PHOTO

Mike Jimena and Ron Randolph perform a scenefrom Brothers! in 2010 at Sutter Street Theatre.Jimena and Connie Mockenhaupt opened the the-ater at 717 Sutter St., across the street from the old

Gaslight Theatre.


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In 1849, gold broughtpeople to the west toseek their fortunes butas gold mines petered outand the gold becameexceedingly difficult toextract, the minersdropped their pickaxesand picked up plows,hammers and wrenches.

Its been a transition inFolsom and El DoradoHills as the years havepassed. Sutter Street isonce again home to abank (Folsom LakeBank), the Folsom Tele-

graph and numerous

restaurants, pubs and a wine bar.

Westwood Family Cel-lars is planning to con-struct a wine tasting room in the 900 block of Sutter Street.

Grapes, and wine, werea regular crop in MormonIsland and the outskirtsof Folsom.

The longest-running business in Folsom is TheFolsom Telegraph, whichfor decades was on SutterStreet and in 2009,returned to its roots.

The Telegraph was first

known as the GraniteJournal but changed itsname to the Folsom Tele-graph to reflect the namechange of the town fromGranite City to Folsom.

The first edition waspublished March 12,1856, by Dr. L. Bradley of Placerville.

Thad McFarlandbought the Telegraphfrom I. Fiel in October1889. McFarland diedMay 4, 1896, at whichtime his widow, Mary,took over the paper. She

was assisted by her son,


The Enterprise Hotel had 28 rooms and was completed in 1893 by Kate Fos-ter. This photo, showing a horse-drawn coach on Sutter Street, is not dated.Fosters son was James Donnelly, also a Folsom business man, who managed

the Donnelly Livery Stable and blacksmith shop. He was also town constable.

Chasing the American dreamFrom digging gold to plowing fields, regions focus has


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Ray, and daughter, Hazel. They owned the paper until selling it to EdShirton in 1942. Subsequent owners were Bob and Elain Finley, Milton P.Kjer and Orvile Wegat (1957-1962)and Fred Curry and J. Clifton CliffToney.

Toney retired from the Telegraphin 1976 when he sold it to Sierra Pub-lishing Co.

Lesher Newspapers purchasedthe (Telegraph) in 1990, marking thefirst time the paper became a part of a large publishing corporation, a1997 Telegraph article states.

At the end of 1995, Brehm Com-munications purchased the Tele-graph and still own the paper. RyanSchuyler, grandson of company chairman Bill Brehm, Sr., was namedpublisher of the Telegraph in 2013.

The Telegraph has offices at 921Sutter St. and has had many differentlocations on the street during its 158 years of publishing.

Larger employers have found theregion perfect for their operationsand their employees. Intel, Aerojet,BlueShield and many others call the

area home.


In 1989, Gekkeikan Sake selected Folsom for its firstplant outside Japan. Today, the manufacturing plantemploys 34 people and ships across Canada and the U.S.


Sutter Street, taken at Riley and looking down at the 700block, dates from the 1940s.


When compared to the 1940s photo, Sutter Streets appear-

ance doesnt look much different in 2014.

Kikkoman Foodsbuilt their secondAmerican plantin Folsom 15years ago. Thesoy sauce manu-facturer employs30 people in theirFolsom plant.

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A bit of history: The shop, Burlap and Bees (and Katrinas) had been a gasand service station at one time. The island where cars drove up to pumpgas is still there. Look closely at the inside windows of Burlap and Beesand you can see the building frame where the service station garage door

had been. Joe Murer built the gas station after building the Folsom Hotelin the mid 20s. The current owner of Burlap and Bees is the great-grand-

daughter of Cecil West, who owned the station sometime in the 50s.Learn more at www.burlapandbees.com.

From the native people who lived inthe region first to those who movehere now, water is a driving factor.

Two companies, Gekkeikan Sake andKikkoman Foods, located in Folsombecause of the quality of water (asreported first in the Telegraph on March5, 2014).

In the early days of mining, the call went forth for more water and thusbegan the formation of what wouldbecome the San Juan Water District.

Not long after the famous discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in 1848, gold wasfound on the American Rivers north fork.In 1853, survey parties searched for anappropriate place for a diversion canal tobring water to the miners, according to150 Years of Water: The History of theSan Juan Water District, prepared by the Water Education Foundation.

In late spring 1854, the Natoma Waterand Mining Company, which had builtcanal systems on the south fork of theriver, called a meeting of its stockholders

to discuss and vote on the formation of

a similar company to serve north fork miners. On July 27, 1854, in MormonIsland, the North Fork American Riverand Mining Company was formed.

Water was dammed about two mileseast of Auburn and it was diverted in asouthern direction to what is today Fol-som.

On Sept. 18, 1854, workers beganbuilding the canal. By 1856, the canalreached across 33 miles to MississippiBar, near Fair Oaks. The Natoma WaterCompany brought water from SalmonFalls down to Red Bank, Mormon Islandand out to Prairie City.

The North Fork canal was completedat a cost of $180,000 (or $3.6 million intodays dollars).

Floods, much of it caused by mud,sand and gravel washed downriver by hydraulic mining, took its toll on themining camps and growing towns, as well as the new company. They repairedand rebuilt their dam in 1864, 1867, 1874and 1875.

In 1887, the company took on the

A photo of theFolsom Damwhile under

construction inthe early 1950s

shows theAmerican River

in the back-ground as it was

bypassed fromthe construction

area.

COURTE S Y THE COOK

COLLECTION

Water is lifeblood of re

The Folsom Pow-erhouse made

history by trans-mitting power

generated in Fol-som along cop-

per wires toSacramento in

1895. Today, thebuilding is a

museum run bystate parks.

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name C.W. Clarke Water Com-pany, reflecting new owner-ship.

On July 13, 1895, with only two generators in actual opera-tion, electricity was successful-ly transmitted over copper wires the full 22 miles to Sacra-mento from the Folsom Power-house. It was the first time sucha thing had happened and it was widely celebrated acrossthe state and the nation,according to information fromthe Folsom Powerhouse StateHistoric Park.

Today, people can visit theFolsom Powerhouse and see itmuch the way it was back inthe 1895.

Building the damThe American River was first

studied by Army engineers in1927, followed by a second sur-vey in 1936, according to a 1966Telegraph article on the history of the dam.

The first cement for Folsom

Dam was poured in October

1952.The Folsom Dam comprises

many units, such as the Mor-mon Island Auxiliary Dam. Themain dam, Folsom Dams oneconcrete section, towers 340feet above the river channel,the 1966 Telegraph articlestates.

Folsom Dam was dedicated

in May 1956.Below the Folsom Dam is the

Nimbus Dam, meant to serveas an after-bay structure. It is814 feet long, 76 feet high andbuilt to act as a regulating damand to create a forebay for theNimbus generators, according to the 1966 article in the Tele-

graph.

Folsom Lake drawsvisitors

The creation of the dam, which was actually one of many on the river throughoutthe decades, brought the cre-ation of Folsom Lake, a977,000-acre-feet reservoir.

The lake meant the submer-gence of numerous old mining camps and towns including Mormon Island, Red Bank,Salmon Falls and many others.

Negro Bar is under the watersof Nimbus Lake, according to a1966 Telegraph article.

When the lake drops to

record lows, such as 1976-77,2008 and 2013-14, ruins fromthe old town sites begin toemerge.

This most recent droughtdrew hundreds of visitors daily and made headlines aroundthe world. The Telegraph field-ed calls from French and Britishnews organizations about theruins.

The Telegraph also led hikesout to the ruins on two separateoccasions in early 2014. One was attended by 7th Congres-sional District Rep. Ami Bera

(D-Elk Grove).

The old winery buildingat Red Bank was torndown by Bud Davies athis ranch in the 1940s,according to the FolsomHistorical Society. Today,the ruins of the 1872-erawinery can be seen whenthe lake levels drop.

COURTESY FOLSOM HISTORICAL

SOCIETY


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From constables to prisons, area has history

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Folsom is synonymous withFolsom Prison, the secondprison built in California.San Quentin was crowded

and the conditions poor, forc-ing the state to look at a sec-ond site to build a prison. Aftermuch wrangling and infight-ing, Folsom was selected.

On July 26, 1880, FolsomPrison received its firstinmates, 45 of San Quentinstoughest.

The prison architect was A.A. Bennett, one of Sacra-mentos pioneer architects who designed many of thecitys prominent structures,including the State Capitol,

according to Golden Notes:

Folsom Prison, published by the historical society in 1993.

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named Choung Hing and was

given the No. 1.The first of five cell blocks

was completed, containing 324 cells and officers quarters.

The cells were 8-feet by 7-feet

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A horse and buggy is shown in front of the walls of Fol-som Prison in this undated photo.

W.E. Van Winkle, far left, served as Folsom Fire Chief from1938-42. Hes seen here with Kenneth Ellis and an old fire truck.

The granite quarry at Folsom Prison was in use from 1873 untilaround 1915, according to the historical society. This 1880 pho-

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with solid iron cell doors. There was no heating nor plumbing in the cells and the only lightcame from oil lamps.

The first escape was in 1880and was one of many beforethe granite wall was completedin the late 1920s, according tothe society.

Today in Folsom there arethree facilities Folsom StatePrison (known as Old FolsomPrison by locals), CaliforniaState Prison-Sacramento andthe Folsom Womens Facility (overseen by Folsom StatePrison).

Also housed on prisongrounds is the CaliforniaPrison Industry Authority.

Murer brings Italianarchitecture to town

Giuseppe Joe Murer, anItalian immigrant, came to Cal-ifornia to help rebuild SanFrancisco after the great 1906earthquake, according toCindy Baker, with the Murer

House and Learning Center. He

was 21.Once in Folsom, Murer

became the proprietor of theNew Western Hotel (now known as the Folsom Hotel) at703 Sutter St. He was joined by his nephew, Paulo Murer.

Joe became an American cit-

izen in 1913. He served as firechief of the Folsom VolunteerFire Department and joinedthe Knights of Phythias in 1917.He was a 25-year member of the Folsom Aeries of the Eaglesorganization, according to Bak-

er.

He built many notablebuildings on Sutter Street. Afterhe bought the hotel in 1925, he

stripped out the interior, which

was run down after 40 years of continual use, and he did allinterior wooodwork. Joerenamed it the Hotel Goldenand then the Hotel Folsom. Hethen built the gas station andgarage at 701 Sutter. He alsobuilt the Folsom Fire Houseacross the street, which stillstands, but is now a shop. Hebought 705 Sutter St. and basi-cally reconstructed it, tearing


Six teams of prisoners take part in a wheelbarrow race atFolsom Prison in this undated photo.

SEE PUBLIC SAFETY PAGE 28

GiuseppeJoe Murerwas Folsomsfirst volunteerfire chief.COURTESY MURER

HOUSE AND

LEARNING CENTER


The firehouse, designed by Giuseppe Joe Murer, is still onSutter Street, but today is a shop. The fire department relo-cated to Coloma Street in 1961. Today, there are multiplefire stations in Folsom.


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Zentgraf business the scene of a shooTen men stand outside a wine business owned by Jacob Zentgraf. The building,

bearing a sign reading Native Wines, Wholesale and Retail, was located on theoutskirts of town and was the scene of a fatal gun duel. According to a Telegrapharticle dated April 24, 1914, Frank Zentgraf was killed and Gus Wulff seriously injured Sunday evening (April 18) at Green Valley as a result of a gun duel. Thetwo men had been enemies on account of a family feud.

Wulff had been doing some carpentry work ... and upon starting home was joined by the 15-year-old son, who was carrying a rifle and hunting rabbits. They were passing the Zentgraf place. Zentgraf hailed Gus Wulff with an insulting remark (and) pulled a revolver and fire two shots at Wulff, both taking effect. Wulff, as he was falling to the ground, managed to raise his gun and fired oneshot. The bullet struck Zentgraf in the throat and went through the neck, striking the spinal column and caused instant death. ... Wulff had been shot through thechest and through the thigh.

It appears several days before the tragedy Zentgraf had told Mrs. Wulff, his sis-ter, he intended to get Wulff.

McFarlandfamily takeson FolsomTelegraph

Mary McFarland, left,and her daughter, Hazel,right (circa 1952), ran the Folsom Telegraph for more than 50 years.

After the 1896 death of Thad McFarland, the newly widowed Mary took overoperations of the Folsom Telegraph. Her daughter, Hazel, began working at the

paper when she was 13. While in her teens, she became co-editor with her brotherRay. In 1937, after her brothers death, she became editor and served at the helmof the paper until the Telegraph was sold in 1942 to Ed Shirton.

Hazel was well known in town, serving as Folsoms postmaster from 1922-1944.She was Folsoms first city clerk, serving from 1946-1955.

Hazel was born in 1883 in Wheatland and died Aug. 23, 1961.The McFarland family owned the Telegraph the longest period of time in its 158

years of publishing.


Gene Kipp passes prominence to sonsThis 1912 photo of Gene Kipp was taken in front of the old Southern Pacific Rail-

road Depot. Gene was the father of longtime city councilman and mayor Jack Kipp(pictured on the front of this magazine) and Henry Pennock. The old depot build-ing became the Folsom Chamber of Commerce in 1993. It is located on WoolStreet. Henry Pennock was the first car dealer in Folsom, selling Metz models. Thefirst car he sold was to Dr. Smith, father of Dr. Etta Farmer.

COURTESY PHOTOS FOLSOM HISTORICAL SOCIETY Folsoms thriving China TownOak Chan, originally Chin before he immigrated and it was

Americanized, was the last mayor of Folsoms Chinatown. He

arrived in Folsom in 1852 when he was 16 years old. He workedin a gold mine earning $4 per month. He saved and eventually opened his own store, Wing Sing Woo, located at present day River Way and Reading Street. He sold mining equipment,clothing and groceries. He also acted as banker, translator,

employment agent, unofficial judge and scribe for other Chinese. He fatheredthree children, Howard, George and Marion Chan. At one time, Folsom had arobust Chinese population, surpassing even San Francisco.

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as the land in the vicinity of what would later become thetown, Folsoms rights of owner-ship were contested.

Folsom died July 19, 1855,never seeing the developmentof the land for which he hadpaid out the hefty sum. He was38.

Enter Theodore Judah While a school is named after

Theodore Judah today, he wasone of the driving forces to

bring a railroad to the town.On May 30, 1854, just 15 daysafter he had begun work, heissued a report on the prelimi-nary survey and future busi-ness prospects of the Sacra-mento Valley Railroad. He con-tinued with the railroad untilthe tracks were laid in Folsomin February 1856.

He was also contracted by Capt. Folsom to layout thetown which would eventually

bear the captains name.In 1863, bitterly disappointed

in the direction the railroad wastaking, he set out for the eastcoast with the intention of rais-ing capital to buy out the majorplayers in the railroad. He nev-er accomplished this objective. While in Panama, he contract-ed yellow fever and died at 37 years of age shortly after hisreturn to New York City.

Folsom and its newspaper,The Folsom Telegraph, were

founded in 1856. Each changedits name (from Granite City toFolsom and from the GraniteJournal to The Folsom Tele-graph).

In 1966, during its 110thanniversary, the Telegraphreceived a letter from The White House.

On this memorable anniver-sary, I want to extend my con-gratulations to each of the citi-zens of Folsom and to you, your

staff and all those who havepreceded you in making TheFolsom Telegraph a worthy institution.

For 110 years your city hasmatured with the nation, andits history has been faithfully chronicled by The Folsom Tele-graph.

As you review the past withsatisfaction, you are now ableto pioneer the future with theconfidence born of pride in a job well done.

I join with you in celebrating the attainment of this mile-stone of community serviceand development.

You have my best wishes forall the years ahead.

The letter was signed, Lyn-don B. Johnson, President of the United States.

The information was compiled from theTelegraphs 110th anniversary edition,published in 1966.

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James Honey Cook leaves legacy James Honey Cook, a veteran of the 1898 Spanish-Ameri-

can War and longtime Folsom resident, lived with his wife anddaughter in a small house on the corner of Persifer and Decaturstreets. It is said he kept a cow at the rock piles at the end of Decatur. Cook was known for referring to everyone as honey,hence the nickname. Cook is buried in Lakeside Cemetery andthere is a Honey Cook Circle in Folsom.

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