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Jacksonville, California

A Jacksonville grocery store circa 1850. During the mid-nineteenth century, Jacksonville was one of the most populous towns in Mother Lode Country, the heart of the California Gold Rush. One hundred and twenty years later, it was a small country town whose residents were displaced to make way for Don Pedro Dam. Many were not happy: in 1970, a local told KPIX Eyewitness News that "we're gonna stay here just as long as we can and we're gonna fight 'em to the last straw." The town was inundated one year later.