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Floods My class and I went on a field trip to Old Sacramento to learn about the city of Sacramento as we know it! There is a lot to explain so I will only tell a piece of it.
Due to the fact that Sacramento is next to a river, there were always floods. In one flood, instead of selling gold mining supplies, they sold rafts and boats. Then Harden Bigelow from Mississippi had an idea. They built something called a levee that they use in Mississippi. A levee is a mound of dirt alongside a river designed to stop floods. It only helped, but it didn’t solve the problem. More floods happened. Then, someone had the idea of raising the city, but there were a couple of problems. One problem was that people had to pay for their buildings to be raised. Another problem was that a building fell. Eventually, after fourteen years, the city was raised by twelve feet. It took a lot of work and dirt to complete, but in the end the problem of floods was solved.
Article posted May 24, 2012 at 08:13 PM •
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