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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.”
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February 26, 2021
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A new “Old Sacramento Waterfront” neon sign is set to be installed later this year atop the California State Railroad Museum, beckoning southbound drivers on I-5 to stop by for a visit. The sign will stand 26 feet tall and 45 feet wide and is expected to be illuminated with a combination of neo-neon (read: LED) and old-school neon tubes of gold, red and teal.
Commissioned by Downtown Sacramento Partnership (in partnership with California State Parks, the California State Railroad Museum and Foundation, and the Harvego Family Foundation), the sign was designed by Sacramento-based Pacific Neon Company, whose work includes refurbishing the six historic neon signs hanging inside the Golden 1 Center (including those for Tower Records and Shakey’s Pizza) and creating the new Broadway sign installed in February 2020 at the corner of X and 3rd streets, along with lighted signage atop downtown’s Piz
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