Norristown, California
Norristown, or Hoboken, was an ephemeral
California Gold Rush settlement and steamboat landing on the American River in present-day Sacramento County, California.[1]
: 11, 16
History
It was located on the south bank of the American River, four miles east of Sacramento on a road leading to the gold fields, that later became L Street, in the vicinity of what is now the
California State University Sacramento
.
Norristown was built above the reach of flooding by the river, unlike Sacramento below it. During the flooding of Sacramento in 1852–53 it began as a settlement called Hoboken, for citizens of Sacramento who fled the inundation of their city. Sam Norris who owned the land tried to make it a permanent settlement, however most of the refugees returned to Sacramento and Norristown failed to grow and soon vanished.[2]: ix, 76
See also
References
- ^ Jerry MacMullen, Paddlewheel Days In California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1970.
- ^ William Burg, Sacramento, Arcadia Publishing, 2008
38°33′28″N 121°25′04″W / 38.55778°N 121.41778°W