Michelson school's namesake

Submitted by Sloane DellOrto on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 15:39.

Albert Michelson, who measured the speed of light and became the first American to win the Nobel Prize (1907), attended school in Murphys.

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Original Hogan Dam honored the Spanish missions
At the November 2, 1930 dedication of the original Hogan Dam, a bronze plaque was affixed onto the dam using cement and sand gathered from all corners of the state and water taken from the wells of se