CHESTERFIELD An electrical fire at a home on Bryant Street drew numerous fire crews and caused an estimated $150,000 in damage Saturday afternoon, Fire Chief David Hewes said.The single-family home’s residents were not at home at the time, and no.
The Arizona spike, which was ceremoniously driven in Utah to mark the transcontinental railroad completion in 1869, sold for more than $2 million during a recent auction.
CHESTERFIELD A 13-year-old girl who was seriously injured while tubing in the Chesterfield Gorge Reservation was rescued from the site Friday thanks to a multi-agency effort.According to a post on the Massachusetts State Police Facebook page, the.
By Steve Cottrell | Special to The Union
In the summer of 1850, when 20-year-old William Garratt dipped a pan in Deer Creek, he had no way of knowing that he would later manufacture one of the most famous gold objects in American history.
As a teenager, he worked alongside his father, who owned a brass foundry in Cincinnati. But when he heard about gold in California, he left Ohio, arriving in San Francisco on July 20, 1850. From there, he took a steamboat to Sacramento, then headed up into the mountains.
“When I made my first trip from Sacramento to Nevada City,” Garratt once wrote, “I was weighed and paid 12-1/2 cents a pound to ride there on a six-mule wagon, one of the conditions being I would walk up all the hills and help hold back the wagon on downgrades. There were eight or ten passengers,” he recalled, “and we all traveled on the same conditions.”