Newsletter

January 2007

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:

¨       Update on the HPL’s Recent Activities
¨       Election of 2007 Officers
¨       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.