Yosemite National Park
President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill to preserve Yosemite Valley and a grove of sequoia trees that he had never seen on June 10, 1864. The first tourists to Yosemite Valley traveled four to five days by carriage, horse, and foot from San Francisco. Yosemite known for beautiful waterfalls and sequoias Yosemite National Park was established in 1890 and has 3,700,000 visitors every year. The park is best known for its waterfalls, but also has ancient giant sequoias, vast wilderness, meadows, and valleys. Yosemite Falls is North America’s tallest waterfall At 2,425 feet, Yosemite Falls is the tallest waterfall in North America. Melting snow feeds Yosemite Falls and it usually reaches its peak in late May. Giant Staircase The Merced River drops over...
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by Sandra Merville Hart California’s nickname is The Golden State, partly because of the discovery of gold there in 1848. Golden poppies grow throughout the state every spring. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is another reason for California’s nickname. California’s early history Juan Cabrillo led a Spanish expedition from Mexico to the area now known as California in 1542. England’s Sir Francis Drake sailed along the coast of northern California in 1579. Neither settled there. Spanish settlements in the area began in 1769. California became a Mexican territory in 1825. Mexico ruled huge areas of the Southwest, including Texas, twenty years later. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War, the United States owned...
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