Folsom, California

Sacramento County

06-24638

Folsom is a city in Sacramento County in the U.S. state of California, United States and has 69,445 inhabitants (as of 2006). The metropolitan area has a size of 62.6 km ². It lies on the American River at the edge of the Central Valley in Northern California. Folsom is named after Joseph Folsom, Captain of the U.S. Army and a pioneer of the railroad in the American West.

The village was founded in the wake of the California gold rush initially as the terminus of the first railroad in California that the California capital Sacramento association from February 1856 to the gold fields at the American River. In the Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park is a historic power plant, which was built in 1896, won power from the American River and Sacramento as supplied with electricity. This facility is now a National Historic Landmark. The river is dammed above the city by the Folsom Dam to Folsom Lake.

The prison of the city, which opened in 1880 Folsom State Prison is known to San Quentin, the oldest in California and was by country singer Johnny Cash.

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