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Leidesdorff Ranch ~ Heritage of California Agriculture and 2007 Farm Bill Debate
The Golden Legacy of the "African Founding Father of California" will provide many examples of high culture and excellence that can teach values and beliefs to raise our current standard of living. The 2007 Farm Bill will provide opportunity for local food systems to mirror early 1848 Agricultural conservation practices of California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists.
Leidesdorff Adobe Home and Ranch could become a central cultural tourist destination in Sacramento County to teach historic and modern agricultural practices while showcasing opportunities for evironmental preservation of the American River Parkway.
This opportunity is a salient potential outcome from the 2007 Farm Bill debate, "Restoration of Agriculture as the Foundation of Black Culture."
The "African Founding Father of California" William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. utilized personal wealth and the financial markets of New York to develop early California agriculture infrastructure.
Today, Leidesdorff Ranch is being resurrected from the ashes of authentic California History and challenging the need to highlight a negative C.M. Goethe racist legacy of "legal" apart~hate in the Golden State of Queen Califia.
In 1838, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. was forced to leave the Port of New Orleans; his homeport for the previous 4 years, because of racial hatred imposed via legal politics via the Negro Seamen Acts which provided difficult environmental conditions to continue his lucrative maritime trade and commerce.
By 1841, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. has sailed from the Port of New York to establish the sleepy Mexican Port of Yerba Buena as a major cosmopolitan shipping destination. The Leidesdorff name is well known in East coast financial circles yet few know that Leidesdorff Alley is the Wall St. of the West coast, the Financial District of San Francisco. Leidesdorff served as first elected City Treasurer, President of the S.F. School Board and was appointed U.S. Vice-Consul of Mexican California, serving as the first African American in U.S. History.
The steamship, Sitka, is seen on our California State Seal, forever showcasing the catalyst of agricultural export of product from the Central California Valley to global markets.
His golden legacy remains a open secret buried inside the front entrance at Mission Delores San Francisco.
Beginning in the Spring of 1845 Leidesdorff Ranch was developed as a major cattle and wheat agricultural enterprise. After the arrival of the New York Volunteers - Stevenson Regiment in 1846, California was under U.S. Military rule until statehood in September of 1850.
We must hightlight the connection of New York financial markets to early California development in an "Ancient Future" Gold Rush Era story in historic Leidesdorff Ranch, Sacramento County.
May 1966, Leidesdorff Plaza was dedicated by the Negro Museum and Library Association of Sacramento, led by Mr. Joe Larson. A majestic fountain and scenic park were highlighted by historical markers of the Pony Express, Sacramento Valley Railroad and Leidesdorff Ranch, hopefully these elements return and showcase the positive contribution of people of African
Ancestry, as a mutually beneficial point of respect and reverence that brings people together.
Conservation practices can embrace authentic historical reality.
Ongoing bold and courageous bipartisan leadership of our elder statesmen Dave Cox, Mervyn Dymally, and Darrell Steinberg whom help facilitate the establishment of the William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. Memorial Highway, as a first step, to encourage a broader recognition and desire towards preservation and restoration of an authentic legacy of Leidesdorff Ranch is acknowledged.
There is no greater story of the California Gold Rush than the golden legacy of the wealthiest man person in 1848 California, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. “African Founding Father of California.”
Today, it may take mutual assistance from San Francisco, New York and internatinal financial markets to showcase the Leidesdorff Legacy and maximize sharing an authetic historic origin of World Trade Center of Commerce, fueled by a Gold Rush transforming pristine Leidesdorff Ranch, California to a high yeild economic construct primed for future explosive growth.
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association
Leidesdorff Ranch Project
P.O. Box 5071
Sacramento, California 95817
(916) 220-5320
Leidesdorffproject @ yahoo.com
This opportunity is a salient potential outcome from the 2007 Farm Bill debate, "Restoration of Agriculture as the Foundation of Black Culture."
The "African Founding Father of California" William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. utilized personal wealth and the financial markets of New York to develop early California agriculture infrastructure.
Today, Leidesdorff Ranch is being resurrected from the ashes of authentic California History and challenging the need to highlight a negative C.M. Goethe racist legacy of "legal" apart~hate in the Golden State of Queen Califia.
In 1838, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. was forced to leave the Port of New Orleans; his homeport for the previous 4 years, because of racial hatred imposed via legal politics via the Negro Seamen Acts which provided difficult environmental conditions to continue his lucrative maritime trade and commerce.
By 1841, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. has sailed from the Port of New York to establish the sleepy Mexican Port of Yerba Buena as a major cosmopolitan shipping destination. The Leidesdorff name is well known in East coast financial circles yet few know that Leidesdorff Alley is the Wall St. of the West coast, the Financial District of San Francisco. Leidesdorff served as first elected City Treasurer, President of the S.F. School Board and was appointed U.S. Vice-Consul of Mexican California, serving as the first African American in U.S. History.
The steamship, Sitka, is seen on our California State Seal, forever showcasing the catalyst of agricultural export of product from the Central California Valley to global markets.
His golden legacy remains a open secret buried inside the front entrance at Mission Delores San Francisco.
Beginning in the Spring of 1845 Leidesdorff Ranch was developed as a major cattle and wheat agricultural enterprise. After the arrival of the New York Volunteers - Stevenson Regiment in 1846, California was under U.S. Military rule until statehood in September of 1850.
We must hightlight the connection of New York financial markets to early California development in an "Ancient Future" Gold Rush Era story in historic Leidesdorff Ranch, Sacramento County.
May 1966, Leidesdorff Plaza was dedicated by the Negro Museum and Library Association of Sacramento, led by Mr. Joe Larson. A majestic fountain and scenic park were highlighted by historical markers of the Pony Express, Sacramento Valley Railroad and Leidesdorff Ranch, hopefully these elements return and showcase the positive contribution of people of African
Ancestry, as a mutually beneficial point of respect and reverence that brings people together.
Conservation practices can embrace authentic historical reality.
Ongoing bold and courageous bipartisan leadership of our elder statesmen Dave Cox, Mervyn Dymally, and Darrell Steinberg whom help facilitate the establishment of the William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. Memorial Highway, as a first step, to encourage a broader recognition and desire towards preservation and restoration of an authentic legacy of Leidesdorff Ranch is acknowledged.
There is no greater story of the California Gold Rush than the golden legacy of the wealthiest man person in 1848 California, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. “African Founding Father of California.”
Today, it may take mutual assistance from San Francisco, New York and internatinal financial markets to showcase the Leidesdorff Legacy and maximize sharing an authetic historic origin of World Trade Center of Commerce, fueled by a Gold Rush transforming pristine Leidesdorff Ranch, California to a high yeild economic construct primed for future explosive growth.
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association
Leidesdorff Ranch Project
P.O. Box 5071
Sacramento, California 95817
(916) 220-5320
Leidesdorffproject @ yahoo.com
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