General Membership
Meeting This Jan. 29
Join us for the HPL General
Membership Meeting on Monday, Jan. 29, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Veterans
Hall, 1300 Forrest St., Folsom
On the Agenda:
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Update on the HPL’s Recent
Activities
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Election of 2007 Officers
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Presentation on the Folsom
Powerhouse and an update on the
new visitor’s center by Dan Winkelman
Light Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 916-404-3665
Historic Nimbus Winery Is Sold
The Nimbus Winery (originally the Natoma Winery), at Hazel Avenue and Folsom
Boulevard in unincorporated Sacramento County, has been sold to an
out-of-state developer. The Winery is home to Garbeau’s and the Spaghetti
Factory.
The Winery structures are remarkably well preserved, thanks to all the
previous owners. Built in 1905 by the Natoma Vineyard Company, an offshoot
of Natoma Water and Mining Company, the current structures replaced an older
winery on the site, which burned to the ground in 1904. The Natoma
Vineyards, planted in the 1870s on 2,000 acres south and west of Alder
Creek, was the largest vineyard in the country in the 1890s. The Nimbus
Winery is one of only two remaining Natomas Company buildings in our area.
The other is the Sheepherders’ Inn in Rancho Cordova.
The developers are proposing a 37-unit, five-story condominium, and three
small retail pads be built in the existing parking lot, and that the old
winery building be “upgraded.” This proposal is in the early stages and the
Heritage Preservation League of Folsom will be watching.
Plaque for Cohn Mansion?
More than 25 years after it was placed on the National Register of Historic
Places, the Cohn Mansion may finally get a monument plaque.
The new Helvetia Chapter of E. CLAMPUS VITUS has invited the Heritage
Preservation League of Folsom to nominate a Folsom historic site to get a
bronze plaque, and the League has nominated the Mansion. The “Clampers” will
consider the site for a plaque in 2007.
