Lincoln Village History Project |
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Welcome to the "Lincoln Village History Project". LVNA is collecting photos, maps, stories and memories about Lincoln Village "back in the days". As our collection grows we will be adding more content to this page. Stories can be sent to Admin@LincolnVillage.org. Photos already in digital format can also be sent electronically to Admin@Lincoln Village.org. If you have original photos, maps, or other documents not in a digital formate, please contact us and we arrange for them to be copied and the original returned to you. |
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| A Time Line for the Lincoln Village area before 1808 - Maidu/Nisenan and Miwok native peoples populate the region. 1808 - Lt. Gabriel Moraga leads a Spanish military expedition into the region. They are the first Europeans to reach the American River. 1827 - American and British fur trappers begin crossing through and trapping furs in this region. 1833 - An epidemic kills thousands of native Americans in this region. |
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1855 - A railroad is built from Sacramento to Folsom. Platform stops, or station stops, will eventually be established at Mayhew's Crossing (or Mayhew Station), Hangtown Crossing (which is renamed "Mills Station" about 1900), and Nimbus. See children in a horse drawn wagon going to Mayhew Station. |
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1857 - The Hay's Survey is the first attempt to properly map the area that was in the old "Rio de los Americanos" land grant. 1857- Joseph Routier plants the first Flaming Tokay grapes in the region. This will be the main grape used by wineries in this area (such as at Horn Road and Nimbus) for the next eighty years. 1860 - The Pony Express is started. The "Fifteen Mile House" at what is now White Rock Road and Sunrise Blvd is the 2nd horse exchange station east of Sacramento City. Here riders can get a fresh horse for the next leg of their trip. late 1800s - Farms, orchards, and vineyards dot the region. View a fruit crate label from a local grower |
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| See workers packing fruit for shipment to East coast. |
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| 1839 - Captain Sutter arrives. He soon builds a road through this area towards a saw mill he has constructed in the foothills at a place known as Coloma. 1841 - Sutter builds the a trading post and ranch headquarters called "Sutter's Fort" in what is now Sacramento. 1841 - Bidwell/Bartleson party is the first group of American settlers to cross through this area. |
1844 - The "Rio de los Americanos" land grant issued to Williams Leidesdorff, a native of the Danish Caribbean, who came to California after living in New Orleans for some period. This 35,000 acre land grant shared a boundary with Captain Sutter's grant along a line that is now about the location of Bradshaw Road. 1846 - War between Mexico and USA starts. 1848 January - Marshall discovered in at Sutter's mill. 1848 February -California is ceded to America by Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war between Mexico and the United States. 1848 May - Leidesdorff dies. J.L. Folsom buys the "Rio de los Americanos" grant from Leidesdorff's relatives, but Folsom's rights to the land are tied up by legal issues for many years. (Folsom dies in 1852, but the courts do not settle the case until 1864.) (For more on Leidesdorff and Folsom, go to the Folsom History Museum.) |
1849 - The year of the great "Gold Rush" to California, as people from all over the world head to California's Mother Lode. 1849 - A.M.Winn becomes the President of the first Sacramento City Council. 1850 - California becomes a state. 1850 - Sacramento County established. 1850 - Winn leads the Sacramento through a cholera outbreak. Read more about General A.M Winn at Old Sacramento Living History |
1905 -There are 27 autos registered in Sacramento County by this year. See how Mayhew Road once looked. |
| 1918 - The United States Army establishes an air field to train pilots for the Great War. It soon unofficially is named "Mather Air Field" in honor of a pilot killed while training in Texas, but is not officially called this by the Army until 1936. 1925 - First transcontinental air mail service in America makes its west coast landing at Mather Air Field. 1941 - The United States enters WWII. 1945 - WWII ends but the Cold War soon follows and the area remains an active center for defense and aerospace work. Mather remains an active Air Force Base until the end of the 20th century. There are also two Air Force Plants in the area (#70 in Rancho Cordova and #71 in Folsom.) A local firm, Aerojet, is a key member of the growing aerospace industry. 1955 - As the post-WWII housing boom pushes into the region between Sacramento and Folsom a post office is opened under the name "Rancho Cordova" 1960s - Space Race between the United States and USSR is in full swing. 1960s - Construction of part of Lincoln Village begins. View photos of old farm buildings and a bulldozer tearing them down (this set takes a minute to download) 2003 - Rancho Cordova incorporated. 2004 - LVNA founded. |
