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  2. Snowshoe Thompson - Wikipedia

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    He was the son of Torsten Olsen Rue (ca. 1760–1829) and Gro Jonsdatter Håkaland (1781-ca. 1846). His father died when Thompson was 2 years old. [3] [4] [5] In 1837, at the age of 10, Thompson came to America with his mother, settling first on a farm in Norway, LaSalle County, Illinois at the Fox River Settlement.

  3. U.S. Route 50 in California - Wikipedia

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    (The route was further cut back to Placerville, where messages were passed to the telegraph, from July 1861 to its discontinuance in October.) [30] The Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad reached Latrobe in 1864, [22] Shingle Springs (on the old Carson Route west of Placerville) in 1865, and was finally completed to Placerville in 1888. [31]

  4. Placerville, California - Wikipedia

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    Placerville (/ ˈ p l æ s ər v ɪ l /, PLASS-ər-vil; placer, Spanish for "sand deposit", representing the placer mining that was predominant in the town's development, and ville, French for "town") is a city in and the county seat of El Dorado County, California, United States. The population was 10,747 as of the 2020 census, up from 10,389 ...

  5. Chinese American family meets descendants of the Black couple ...

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    In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family.

  6. GMC (automobile) - Wikipedia

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    GMC (formerly the General Motors Truck Company (1911–1943), or the GMC Truck & Coach Division (1943–1998)) is a division of American automotive manufacturer General Motors (GM) for trucks and utility vehicles.

  7. Thompson Fire - Wikipedia

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    The fire sparked at 10:51 a.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, near Cherokee Road and Thompson Flat Cemetery Road. [7] Within six hours, the fire grew from 15 acres (6.1 ha) to over 2,100 acres (850 ha), causing Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, declared a state of emergency in Butte County.