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Sacramento City and County (along with a portion of adjacent Placer County) are served by a customer-owned electric utility, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
Sacramento is also the northern terminus of the Amtrak San Joaquins route which provide direct multiple-frequency passenger rail service to California's Central Valley as far as Bakersfield; Thruway Motorcoach connections are available from the trains at Bakersfield to Southern California and Southern Nevada.
Sacramento is also a stop along Amtrak's Coast Starlight route which provides scenic, luxurious service to Seattle via Klamath Falls and Portland to the north and to Los Angeles via San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara to the south.
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 Definition of Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the county seat of Sacramento County, California and the capital of the U.S. state of California.
Sacramento is also home to California State University at Sacramento, founded as the Sacramento State College in 1947, with a 2000 enrollment of around 27,000.
Sacramento has a reputation as a center for "free jazz", due to the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee which is held every Memorial weekend.
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 Top20Sacramento.com - Your Top20Guide to Sacramento, CA.
Begun in 1869 to be reminiscent of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, the Renaissance Revival style California State Capitol was completed in 1874.
Sacramento is also home to Sacramento State University, (officially, California State University at Sacramento, or CSUS), founded as Sacramento State College in 1947.
Sacramento is also home to Fuller Theological Seminary's Sacramento campus, which is located across the street from CSUS at Fremont Presbyterian Church.
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 Sacramento Facts
With its newfound status and strategic location, Sacramento quickly prospered and became the western end of the Pony Express, and later the First Transcontinental Railroad (which began construction in Sacramento in 1863 and was financed by the "Big Four": Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, Collis P. Huntington and Leland Stanford).
The 'Delta King', which for a long time lay on the bottom of the river, was refurbished and is now a popular hotel and restaurant.
Sacramento is located around 85 miles northeast of San Francisco on Interstate 80 and 135 miles southwest of Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80.
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 Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
He includes an historical background to the mines, a description of the workings, the treatment of the ores and a chemical description of the types of irons.
The Warburton work is an historical novel based on the ill-fated "Darien Scheme," the attempts of banker William Paterson to establish a Scottish colony in 1698 on the Isthmus of Panama.
He was appointed in 1873 as a commissioner of state parks to report upon the expediency of setting apart the whole Adirondack region as a state forest reserve, and subsequently exerted his influence toward the passage of a bill on this subject..
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 Runner's Web Marathon Links
Park City Marathon - UT   June 10, 2006
Sacramento Cowtown Marathon & Half - Sacramento, CA   October 2, 2005
Western States Endurance Run - Squaw Valley to Auburn, CA   June 25-26, 2005
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