Welcome to Heritage Trails!
This site is dedicated to bringing to light aspects of California history that have had little or no exposure in mainstream history lessons but have had a major impact on its success. These, until now obscure, events changed California forever and set it on its course to greatness.
We have come to know through repeated exposure and school projects (What child hasn’t built a mission?), the early padres who carved the Spanish Trail to California and built a chain of missions along the coast. We have learned about Mexican independence and the subsequent Spanish Rancho era. The discovery of gold in ‘48 and Gold Rush of ‘49 are dominant in California history courses. Then we study the mighty trains that connect west and east by 1869.
But there are important events that are missing in this modern-day curriculum.
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What of those “untold” twenty years?
What happened in California from 1849 to 1869?
What happened before trains descended over the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California and San Bernardino Mountains in the south?
How did California transition from ranchos to agriculture?
HOW DID CALIFORNIA BECOME THE GOLDEN STATE?
We invite you to browse our pages for the answers and much much more.
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Come back often as we will post new information, events and fun history activities regularly.
Happy Trails with Heritage Trails!
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