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Sonora Inn Hotel, Sonora, CA

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $14.95

Stock #:1092637
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
City: Sonora
State: California (CA)
County: Tuolumne
Artist: Merle Porter
Publisher: Royal Pictures
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Publisher's Series #: S-34001
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Sonora Inn is located in the center of the town of Sonora, known as Sonorian Camp in 1848. By November of 1848 half the population was near death with scurvy. A town government was formed to build a hospital, but the "Gringo" government imposed a $20.00 tax on foreign-born miners, a great number being Mexican and Chilians. Alarmed at the Yankee treachery these foreign-born miners moved to nearby Columbia where rich ore was found. With the turn of events Sonora found itself with but a fifth of its former population...

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