By Shelby Sorensen, Zachary Vaccarezza, and Tyler Tocci November 2025 Update: Since the publishing of this blog, Folsom's community has answered our call. A new edition of this blog will be posted soon. Synopsis:  Folsom History Staff and Volunteers have recently been working to uncover the history of Ashland Station. What we've found suggests that it's highly likely no train station ever existed in Ashland. Neither local newspapers nor railroad survey maps from the 1860s men

It is seldom mentioned in the histories of the Gold Rush that one of the reasons that John Sutter built his sawmill at Coloma was to get...