Portal:California/Did you know
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- ...that U.S. Route 50 in California was the route traveled by many '49ers and the Pony Express, and later became California's first state highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway?
- ...that California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BCE by indigenous Native Americans?
- ...that when the Brother Jonathan (pictured) sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?
- ...that the easternmost part of California State Route 20 follows a branch of the historic California Trail, parts of which have been preserved as a National Recreation Trail?
- ...that Alameda Street was built by Los Angeles County, California as a "truck boulevard" to the port?
- ...that the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species?
- ...that 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
- ...that the Yana people of California hid in the Sierra Nevada mountains for over 40 years their survival and existence unknown in the United States from 1865 to 1911?
- ...that Zinfandel was grown for table grapes in Boston long before it made wine in California?