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Auburn Old Town
$22.00
One of the earliest Gold Rush sites in California, on a hill in the Sierra foothills between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe. Auburn rebuilt in brick and iron after the fires of the 1850s, and the streetfront on Commercial Street still holds the businesses that started in it. Claude Chana, who found gold here in May 1848, watches from a forty-five-foot statue at the lower edge of town. The red firehouse, with its white cupola, has stood at the top of the hill since 1891. The town didn't move on.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.