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    The Kaweah Colony was a utopian socialist community in central California founded in 1886, with a name meaning "here we rest." Located in the Sierra Nevada...
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    an intentional community along the upper North Fork of the Kaweah River. Named Kaweah Colony, it was inspired by the ideas of Laurence Gronlund. When Congress...
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    The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt...
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  • Sequoia National Park, California. Kaweah Indian Nation, a civic group interested in Native American interests. Kaweah Colony, a utopian Socialist community...
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    In 1886, Curtis joined the Kaweah Colony, a group of socialists led by Burnette Haskell in San Francisco.: 20–21  The colony acquired land in the Giant...
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    Seven years later, in 1886, the land came under the control of the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community whose economy was based on logging. Noting...
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    The Squatter's Cabin is the only remnant of the Kaweah Colony, a socialist utopian group established in the Sierra Nevada in the 1880s. Now located in...
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    Giant Forest was a region of particular value to loggers. The Kaweah Colony, a socialist colony which lived in the forest until 1892, hoped to profit from...
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    1880s, white settlers seeking to create a utopian society founded the Kaweah Colony, which sought economic success in trading Sequoia timber. Giant Sequoia...
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    Modern Times, New York, 1851 Whiteway Colony, United Kingdom, 1898 Others Fairhope, Alabama, US, 1894 Kaweah Colony, California, 1886 Llano del Rio, California...
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    November 16, 1907) was an American radical best known for co-founding the Kaweah Co-operative Commonwealth. He was also involved in anarchist and labor causes...
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  • the community in 1890; it was moved to Kaweah in 1910. Advance was the site of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony, an experimental socialist community which...
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    several anarchists at the Kaweah Colony which was located near Evans’ Redwood Ranch from 1885 to 1890. Chris and the Kaweah Colony had a common enemy, as...
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  • Kaweah Post Office, Kaweah Colony...
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    Sutter's Fort was a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in the Mexican Alta California province. Established in 1839, the site of the fort was originally...
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    four-acre (1.6 ha) Colony Fire near Colony Peak, burning in a mixed conifer forest west of the Giant Forest and north of the Kaweah River, and the one-quarter-acre...
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    Lake Franklin Lakes Lake Kaweah Lake Success Rockslide Lake Rocky Basin Lakes Weaver Lake Angora River Alpine River Kaweah River Needlerock River Monarch...
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    back-country and vehicle-accessible). The remains of Pond Farm artists' colony (dating from the 1940s) are also included in the Austin Creek SRA. Elevations...
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    traditional range of the Lenape after the first governor of the Jamestown Colony, Lord De La Warr, and consequently referred to the people who lived around...
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  • Farmersville Esperanza High School, Cutler John C. Cairns Continuation, Lindsay Kaweah High School, Exeter Lovell High School, Cutler Sequoia High School, Visalia...
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    Bridgeport is the tribal headquarters for the Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony of California. Bridgeport is in the Eastern Sierra Unified School District...
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    of California gulls to predators (such as coyotes), and forcing the gull colony to abandon this site. In 1974, ecologist David Gaines and his student David...
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    Tenaya. Bunnell wrote that Chief Tenaya was the founder of the Ahwahnee colony. Bunnell falsely believed that the word "Yosemite" meant "full-grown grizzly...
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    often using hollows burned into the redwoods by past fires as a maternity colony.[citation needed] In November 2010 sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have been...
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    jurisdiction area in eastern Oklahoma. After New Amsterdam (formerly a Dutch colony) was transferred to English administration (becoming the Province of New...
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  • Mountains) Black Butte (Northern California Coast Range) Black Giant Black Kaweah Black Mountain Black Mountain (Mono County) Black Mountain Blacktop Peak...
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    the Southeast Farallons added in 1969, and contain the largest seabird colony in the U.S. outside of Alaska and Hawaii. The islands are part of the City...
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    River Mills Fish Slough Fremont Valley Goleta Slough Indian Joe Spring Kaweah Kerman King Clone Laguna Laurel Loch Lomond Vernal Pool Lokern Magnesia...
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    septentrión colonial novohispano" (PDF). McEnroe, Sean F. (June 18, 2012). From Colony to Nationhood in Mexico: Laying the Foundations, 1560–1840. Cambridge University...
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    Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Kaweah River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 4,450 feet...
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