Early Amador Dispatch - Jackson, CA
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saopaulo1
N 38° 20.924 W 120° 46.442
10S E 694515 N 4246853
A plaque in downtown Jackson, CA.
Waymark Code: WMRTR3
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/03/2016
Views: 1
"U.S. Cavalry cordoned newspaper
office during Civil War.
Editors arrested and escorted
to Alcatraz
1855, 1865"
From the Walking Main Street Jackson brochure: "... is the same one-story brick raised here after the 1855 fire. It survived the 1862 fire, and new Amador Dispatch publisher William Penry bought it for his paper, later adding a second floor to house his press. The Dispatch's fiery editorials championed the South and exulted over Lincoln's assassination, thus goading the U.S. Army to padlock the paper and arrest editors Penry and L.P. Hall. A cavalry unit marched the manacled duo to its bivouac, Camp Jackson, in Ione. Anon, they did hard time for six weeks at Alcatraz. Union-supporting townsmen got their revenge, too. They torched the building, forcing Penry on his return to remove the second story's rubble. It's been one story since. This was a drug store from the 1870s to modern times."
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