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Lockeford, California. / 38.15750°N 121.15139°W / 38.15750; -121.15139. Lockeford is an unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California, United States. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Lockeford as a census-designated place (CDP). The census definition of the area may not precisely ...
Dean Jewett Locke. Dean Jewett Locke (1823–1887) was the founder of the pioneer town, Lockeford, California. As a student of the Harvard Medical School, he was a trained physician, but he contributed to the small community in many more professions. The house he lived in is now a historical landmark in California .
Harmony Grove Church is a rare surviving example of an early Protestant brick church in California's Central Valley. [3] The single-story brick building originally had a flat roof, and was built in Greek Revival style in 1859. A brick pediment was added in 1868, contributing to a Gothic appearance. [4] The 1868 remodeling also raised the roof ...
Locke House and Barn. / 38.16472°N 121.14972°W / 38.16472; -121.14972 ( Locke House and Barn) The Locke House and Barn is a home and outbuilding in Lockeford, California that is now the Inn at Locke House. The house, built in 1858, the barn, built in 1852, and the water tower, built in 1887, were the first structures to be listed ...
Locke, also known as Locke Historic District, is an unincorporated community in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta of California, United States. The 14-acre town (5.7 ha) was first developed between 1893 and 1915 approximately one mile north of the town of Walnut Grove in Sacramento County . Locke is a primarily agricultural community ...
On November 4, 2008, San Joaquin County voted 65.5% in favor of Proposition 8 which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages. [48] For most of its history, San Joaquin County has been a Republican-leaning swing county, voting for the national winner in all but 4 presidential elections (1884, 1948, 1960, 1976) from 1880 to 2012.
Fair Oaks is a natural, lush foliage town with rolling streets, canopies of trees, located at (38.651254, -121.259279), [4] between Sacramento and Folsom. Fair Oaks is bounded on the south side by the American River, and Gold River, on the north side by the city of Citrus Heights, on the west side by Carmichael, and the east side by Orangevale and Folsom.
9 cu ft/s (0.25 m 3 /s) • maximum. 41,300 cu ft/s (1,170 m 3 /s) The Mokelumne River ( / məˈkʌləmni / or / məˈkʌləmi /; Mokelumne, Miwok for "People of the Fish Net") is a 95-mile (153 km)-long river in northern California in the United States. The river flows west from a rugged portion of the central Sierra Nevada into the Central ...