Elk Grove’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Elk Grove. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Miwoks, a Native American tribe, once inhabited the area until the Westward Expansion of the United States, in which the Miwoks were relocated to reservations. In 1808, Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga entered the region, naming the valley "Sacramento Valley" in honor of Sacramento, the "Holy Sacrament" in Spanish, giving the northerly city of Sacramento its name. A writer on Moraga's expedition wrote of the region:Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current. Birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths. The air was like champagne, and (the Spaniards) drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them.
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Start Elk Grove’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Elk Grove’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewDrew-Sherwood Farm, 7927 Elk Grov…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Elk Grove
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Elk Grove, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
CommonsTown Square Park In Laguna West2022
CommonsSmall Purple Flowers2015
CommonsCosumnes CSD Fire Department2014
CommonsCalifornia US Congressional District 7 (since 2013)2014
CommonsToppled tree on Elk Grove levee2012
CommonsGrant Line Road exhibit - panoramio (1)2012
CommonsElk Grove Park2011
CommonsE-tran2011
BookCA 7 certified2011
CommonsLaguna Springs Dr and Laguna Blvd2010Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Drew-Sherwood Farm, 7927 Elk Grove Boulevard and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (10), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.