Travel guide to California
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About California
California in the present day has been occupied for millennia, the area has gone from a spanish outpost of interest primarily to missionaries and fur trappers to a land of opportunity and wealth. The coast of California was an inviting pathway even for the earliest inhabitants of North America. When the first European exploreres and settlers appeared they found many Native American tribes living in the pristine land of oak woodlands, grassy hills and broad beaches in what is now California.
The first European to explore the coast of the present day State of California was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo a navigator sailing for the Spanish Crown who had been in the army of Cortes during the conquest of Mexico. California officailly became a state in 1850 and situated its first capital in San Jose, the city did not have facilities ready for a proper capital, the legislature was unsatisfied with the California so former General and State Senator Marino Guadalupe Vallejo donated land in the future city of Vallejo for a new capital.
California was admitted as a free state though one senator agreed to support the slave state in the Senate. By 1859 the difference between the two halves of the state led to an agreement that southern California would split from California to form a new state and the new state in the south was to have the name Colorado after the river flowing along its eastern edge.
