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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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From the jump SF was a socially tolerant town..it was the gate way to the Gold mines in the Sierra's as such people from all over the world went through SF..
Cali helped finance the American Civil War with the Gold it mined...
In the 1870's mining started to decline, as a law was passed to protect Agricultural land from the debris from the Hydraulicing of Cal mountains for Gold. Argraculture, RR and finance..were big.
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