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In the early days of California, the official seat of government was Loreto, in Lower California, and both Alta and ... [Read more]
A list of California governors from 1769 to the present.
Governors of California when California belonged to Spain, 1767 - ... [Read more]
The honorary title of Poet Laureate was first used in England in the 1600s. "Laureate" refers to the ancient Greek ... [Read more]
The Bear Flag is the State Flag of California. The original Bear Flag was raised at Sonoma on June 14, ... [Read more]
Prior to 1861 the Secretary of of State was the ex officio State Librarian. By an act approved March 8, ... [Read more]
General Information
State Capital: Sacramento
Date California Admitted as a State: September 9, 1850
State Motto: "Eureka" (Greek for "I ... [Read more]
State Animal: California Grizzly
State Bird: California Quail
State Color: Blue & Gold
State Dance: West Coast Swing
State Fife ... [Read more]
The geographic center of California lies in Madera County, in the Central Valley.
[Read more]The Great Seal, the earliest California symbol, was adopted by the Constitutional Convention on October 2, 1849. It was designed ... [Read more]
A total of 513 legal executions have taken place in California since 1893. Four of the executed were women.
1851 ... [Read more]
E Clampus Vitus is a men-only organization which flourished in the California mining camps during the Gold Rush days. After ... [Read more]
Driving across the Junipero Serra Freeway (I-280), the huge statue of a man pointing across the freeway is that of ... [Read more]
The Filoli estate, located in Woodside California, is a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Filoli was the ... [Read more]
The agency that oversees California's HMO's is the Department of Managed Health Care. It regulates and licenses Health Maintenance Organizations ... [Read more]
In 1933, in San Jose, California, a young man named Brooke Hart was abducted while leaving his father's department store.
... [Read more]The New Almaden Quicksilver mines were located in Santa Clara County, a few miles south of San Jose. The New ... [Read more]
CALIFORNIA
The Caltrans website gives road and highway conditions around the state plus links to state departments of transportation across ... [Read more]
The signers of the original California Constitution were the 48 delegates to the constitutional convention. The convention met from September ... [Read more]
Except where prohibited by state law, Universal Life Church ministers can perform weddings, funerals, baptisms and other functions of the ... [Read more]
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