California
- Names
California
CA
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Inhabited by many ethnic nationalities including Mojave, Yuma and Chumash when Spanish arrived in 16th cen.; Franciscans established missions all along coast; went to Mexico in 1820s; went to US in 1848; great influx of settlers from E arrived in gold rush.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Active
Walter Miller Askin (American, born 1929)
Alice Asmar (American, born 1929)
Mahlon Blaine (American, 1894-1969)
Hans Burkhardt (American, born Switzerland, 1904-1994)
Kenneth L. Callahan (American, 1905-1986)
Warrington Colescott (American, 1921-2018)
John Marion Crook (American, 1857-1924)
Mark di Suvero (American, born China, active United States and France, born 1933)
John Divola (American, born 1949)
Grace Fountain (American, 1858-1942)
Joseph R. Goldyne (American, born 1942)
Frederick H. Heidel (American, 1915-2000)
Mary Henry (American, 1913-2009)
Clyde Leon Keller (American, 1872-1962)
Frank Lobdell (American, 1921-2013)
Nancy Macko (American, born 1950)
Gordon Mortensen (American, born 1938)
William P. Silva (American, 1859-1948)
Arthur Taussig (American, born 1941)
- Died
