California Travel Tips
Early Auburn Seen in Pictures
Published on: April 27, 2015
Auburn is a diverse, beautiful, fascinating community proud of its past, which has been captured through intriguing photos and well-chosen words by three volunteers at the Placer County Archives– Art Sommers, John Knox and April McDonald-Loomis– in their new Arcadia “Images of America” book, “Early Auburn.”
East of Sacramento, Auburn is where gold was first discovered in what became Placer County, California. Because of its strategic location, it was a significant freighting, transportation and political center. It was the link to remote mining camps in the Sierra, bringing much-needed supplies on pack mules. Read the review about this fantastic book…>
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