California's Centennial - If You Seek Their Monument Look About You
N 40° 42.936 W 122° 24.972
10T E 549309 N 4507350
A marker on Shasta Dam commemorates California's centennial in the Union.
Waymark Code: WMJ4A6
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2013
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If You Seek Their Monument Look About You
To pioneer mothers and fathers of California, whose urge to envision what lay beyond the far horizon and whose courage to overcome hardship opened the unknown west, converting wilderness into empire.
This tablet dedicated June 17, 1950 by the California Centennials Commission during the Shasta Centennial Celebration commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of California's admission into the Union.
Subject: State/Province
Commemoration: Centennial
Date of Founding: June 17, 1850
Date of Commemoration: June 17, 1950
Address:
Shasta Dam
Overview Photograph:
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Detail Photograph:
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