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6 unusual facts about American River


American River, South Australia

Air services were operated for a number of years by Emu Airways, utilising a privately owned airstrip located to the north of the township.

In 2007, a local group, backed by Tourism Kangaroo Island and many local organisations, proposed that the historic ketch Falie be moved from Port Adelaide to the wharf at American River as an interpretive maritime museum.

Colfax, California

Bunch Creek is an active water source flowing south to eventually confluence with the North Fork of the American River.

Downtown Sacramento

Downtown is generally defined as the area south of the American River, east of the Sacramento River, north of Broadway, and west of 16th Street.

Jack Cassinetto

Jack Thomas Cassinetto (born March 26, 1944; Sonora, California) is a prolific California plein air artist of the tonalism movement, painting primarily Northern California landscapes such as Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, the Gold Country, the Northern California Coast, and the American River and Sacramento River.

Urban redevelopment in Sacramento

By the middle of the 20th century, however, much of the historic downtown had degraded into slums and residents began moving further east into the growing suburbs burgeoning along the American River.


East Snow Mountain Falls

East Snow Mountain Falls is a seasonal waterfall dropping 2,200 feet (670.56 m) off the east face of Snow Mountain in the drainage of the American River in Placer County, California.

John Augustus Sutter, Jr.

Despite the fact that his father was planning on starting a town, named Sutterville, Sutter, Jr. planned and began to implement his vision for a city near the fork of the American & Sacramento Rivers.

Oregon Trail II

Also, the player has no option to prospect for gold before 1848 because nobody knew that California had gold until James Marshall discovered it in the American River in Coloma.

Peter Joseph Shields

He was born April 4, 1862, at the Shields Ranch, which was located near Rancho Cordova, California on the American River, to John Shields who emigrated in 1850 from Donegal, Ireland and Elizabeth Shields, née Bowe, who emigrated from Waterford, Ireland in 1855.


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Ballast tank

For example, in 1849 Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois attorney, patented a ballast-tank system to enable cargo vessels to pass over shoals in North American rivers.

Foresthill Bridge

The bridge spans the North Fork of the American River in Placer County between the city of Auburn and the town of Foresthill in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

John B. Leonard

Chili Bar Bridge, spanning South Fork of American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado, California, 1922

Upper American River Project

The water then enters a penstock that feeds the Camino Powerhouse above Slab Creek Reservoir on the South Fork American River.