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Photographer: Merle Porter - Royal Pictures, Colton, California
Caption: Sonora Inn - Sonora California
Additional Description: Sonora Inn is located in the center of the town of Sonora, known as Sonorain Camp in 1848. By November of 1848 half the population was near death with scurvy. A town government was formed to build a hospital, but the "Gringo" government imposed a $20.00 tax on foreign-born miners, a great number being Mexican and Chilians. Alarmed at the Yankee treachery these foreign-born miners moved to nearby Columbia where rich ore was found. With the turn of events Sonora found itself with but one fifth of its former population...M.P.
Submitted: January 21, 2012.
Database Locator Identification Number: p189985
File Size: 0.383 Megabytes

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