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	<title>History - Old Town Auburn, California</title>
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	<description>160 years of rich history from Gold Rush to Endurance Races</description>
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		<title>1852 Auburn Ravine, with chinese 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1852, View Auburn Ravine, of with 3 white men &#38; 4  chinese and long toms or sluice boxes. All have same gold frames in leather boxes, lined with red fabric.
These four daguerreotypes are old famous photographs of the worlds rush for California&#8217;s gold.  The 49&#8242;er Gold Rush and  the ethnic diversity of these photos are still recognized by every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldtownauburnca.com/history/?p=101</link>
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		<title>1852 Spanish Flat 100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View of 4 men with two miners at work on a  long tom or sluice box ( one or two men is an African American, one man inside the wagon and one man is at the rear of the wagon. Water in long tom appears to come from hose at top.
Joseph  Blaney  Starkweather author/photographer, 1852 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldtownauburnca.com/history/?p=86</link>
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		<title>View of Auburn, September 15, 1851</title>
		<description><![CDATA[         
View of Auburn-Placer County in &#8220;Placer Times and Transcript&#8221;
Quote: &#8220;Auburn is one the oldest mining towns in this state. It is the seat of  justice for Placer County, and is situated on the west bank of the North Fork of American River, within in three miles of the junction of the Middle and the North [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldtownauburnca.com/history/?p=66</link>
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		<title>New Post Office 1852</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Gwynn, operating a general store in Auburn, opened the first Post Office at his store in 1852.
Within weeks his advertisement in the Placer Herald newspaper dated Oct. 23, 1852,  announced to residents   &#8220;From this date, Auburn Post Office  will be open for the delivery of letters on Sunday from 3 to 4 o&#8217;clock.&#8221;   Signed Wm Gwynn, P. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldtownauburnca.com/history/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Claude Chana discovers gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chana, still at Sigard&#8217;s Ranch, learned of Marshall&#8217;s discovery at the Sawmill in Coloma and set out with a party to try his luck. On May 16, 1848 Claude Chana found gold in the Auburn Ravine, and Baltimore Ravine. 
 By April 1849 North Fork Dry Diggings had become a well established mining camp. The camp went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldtownauburnca.com/history/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Hunters, trappers, explorers, miners.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t until the 1840&#8217;s that the first Euro-American hunters, trappers and fur traders appeared in the Ravine. They were soon followed by explorer/surveyor John Fremont in 1843 &#8211; 44, John Bidwell in 1844 &#8211; 45 and Theodore Sigard in 1845. As the first settlers started appearing in the early wagon trains, a young Frenchman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldtownauburnca.com/history/?p=9</link>
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		<title>Pre-Columbine Auburn history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There                   is evidence to suggest man&#8217;s presence in the Auburn                   area dating back to 1400 B.C. However, the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oldtownauburnca.com/history/?p=1</link>
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