General Research Topics

  • "Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison"

  • "The Hell Diggers"

  • Aerojet

  • Agriculture

  • Ashland Station

  • Baldwin Dam Reservoir

  • Bridges & the American River

  • Cemeteries

  • Chinese Cemetery

  • Churches (Episcopal, Catholic)

  • Emma Spencer (née Mosby)

  • Flour mills

  • Folsom Annexation

  • Folsom Businesses, 1800-1900

  • Folsom Chamber of Commerce, 1900-1965

  • Folsom Chamber of Commerce, 1966-1999

  • Folsom Chamber of Commerce, 2000-present

  • Folsom City Jail

  • Folsom Dam

  • Folsom Fire Department

  • Folsom Lake College

  • Folsom Police Department

  • Folsom Power House

  • Folsom Prison, 1878-1988

  • Folsom Telegraph

  • Folsom Theater

  • Folsom Zoo

  • Folsom's historic homes

  • Fraternal organizations

  • Granite and marble quarries

  • Hanok's Theater

  • Highway 50/Lincoln Highway

  • Hinkle Creek

  • Historic Truss Bridge

  • Hotels

  • Irish in Folsom

  • Jewish in Folsom

  • Joseph Libbey Folsom

  • Lake Natoma Crossing

  • Maps

  • Mather Air Force Base

  • Mining Towns and trading stations

  • Mormon Island

  • Murer House

  • Natomas Company

  • Natomas Drilling

  • Negro Bar

  • Nimbus Winery

  • North Fork Ditch

  • Orangevale "Big Gulch"

  • Orangevale Bridge

  • Pony Express in California

  • Portuguese in Folsom

  • Post Office

  • Prairie City

  • Railroad

  • Rainbow Bridge

  • Ranches and dairy farms

  • Rancho Cordova

  • Rebel Hills

  • Rhoads Diggings

  • Robber's Ravine/Robber's Roost

  • Salmon Falls Green Valley

  • San Juan Water Co. 

  • Saw Mills

  • Schools, 1853-present

  • Stage coaches

  • Sutter Street

  • Veteran's newspaper cartoons

  • Vital Statistics

  • Walker Bridge

  • Wells Fargo

  • William Alexander Leidesdorff