Prairie City was a gold-mining community that once sat on the American River in the Sierra Nevada foothills, near present-day Folsom in Sacramento County, California , near Prairie City Road, Sacramento.
4-549: Prairie City may refer to some places in the United States: Prairie City, California , south of Folsom Prairie City, Illinois Prairie City, Indiana Prairie City, Iowa Prairie City, Kansas , a ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas Prairie City, Missouri Prairie City, Oregon Prairie City, South Dakota [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
8-569: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Prairie City, California The mining village was first announced in June 1853 in the Sacramento Daily Union . A July article mentions that the city has about 1500 inhabitants. What was left of the town is believed to be covered in river rocks, from gold dredging of the American River in
12-530: The early 1900s. When construction was being performed for the freeway on-ramp near an Intel building, a few bodies were unearthed during construction. Though the names of these people are unknown, it is assumed they were Prairie City residents. Their skeletal remains were re-buried in the Mormon Island relocation cemetery, south of Folsom Lake . The general site of Prairie City is a California Historical Landmark (#464). The Folsom subdivision Prairie Oaks
16-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prairie_City&oldid=603563896 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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