Robert Colby
Paradise
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It was more than 150 years ago that Uncle Billy&quote; Leonard took refuge from the hellish heat in the shade beneath a Ponderosa pine, breathing in relief to his companions: &quote;Boys, this has got to be Paradise!&quote; Or so the story goes. Yet it is no fiction that the settlement grew to be more than just a stop on the way from Oroville or Chico to the gold country. Although Paradise was surrounded by mines, it had little gold itself. Disappointed miners made a living cutting timber, working at one of the sawmills, or hacking out homesteads in the foothill forests. Diamond Match Company built a railroad to its sawmill, locat…
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It was more than 150 years ago that Uncle Billy"e; Leonard took refuge from the hellish heat in the shade beneath a Ponderosa pine, breathing in relief to his companions: "e;Boys, this has got to be Paradise!"e; Or so the story goes. Yet it is no fiction that the settlement grew to be more than just a stop on the way from Oroville or Chico to the gold country. Although Paradise was surrounded by mines, it had little gold itself. Disappointed miners made a living cutting timber, working at one of the sawmills, or hacking out homesteads in the foothill forests. Diamond Match Company built a railroad to its sawmill, locating the depot a mile west of town in what was sometimes called "e;New Paradise."e; For generations before houses began to replace its orchards, Paradise was an apple-growing center, home to harvest festivals that are echoed in today's annual Johnny Appleseed Days."e;
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- ISBN: 978-1-4396-3402-8
- EAN: 9781439634028
- Produktnummer: 28055510
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 50'534 KB
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