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Memory Monday, Week 122
August 2000 — A few more views of the inside of the former storefront (continued from last week), and a last look at Albia, Iowa. Next week, the train trip home!
Old Middle Fork
Two miles above Rio Vista on the Sacramento River you’ll find the entrance to Steamboat Slough. This 11-mile-long waterway was originally called the Middle Fork of the Sacramento River; but by the 1860s it had become the preferred route of impatient steamship captains because it was shorter and easier to navigate than the main river course. I’ve written before about […]