On this day in 1829, Levi Strauss was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria (now Germany). Strauss moved to New York in 1846, where his brothers owned a dry goods business. In 1853, Strauss moved again—this time to San Francisco, California. Strauss opened his own dry goods business on the West Coast, and called it “Levi Strauss
Mousey Monday – California Gold Rush
Happy Mousey Monday from Mousey and the Discovery Education Support team to our Cache and Cookies readers! It was On this Day in 1848 that the New York Herald breaks the news to the East cost of the United States of the
Fun Fact Friday: Gold Rush
You’ve probably heard of the famed ’49ers. Not the football team, but the miners who flocked to California in 1849, to harvest that state’s riches….but did you know that the first major gold rush was actually in Georgia? It happened in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a small North Georgia town, now known as Dahlonega.