Greatest California Gold Rush Legacy ~ William Leidesdorff

Today, the World Ag Expo 2006 mandates exclusionary practices for strategic people of African ancestry. 160 years ago in California the African Founding Father endured similar exclusionary practices in the greatest Agricultural region on earth. ?

Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. built Leidesdorff Ranch as a major cattle and wheat agricultural enterprise in 1844 California. His steam vessel adorns our California State Seal showcasing maritime transportation from Sacramento County to world markets yet, today these markets exclude key regions of Africa.

Leidesdorff Ranch - “Ancient Future” of African Agriculture

October 1844, Leidesdorff Ranch was developed by the Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. “African Founding Father of California” as a major agricultural enterprise with government contracts with the U.S. Headquarters of the Tenth Military Department while he maintained peaceful harmony with the indigenous Maidu Nisenan, speaking a common ancestral language.

His government contracts were never honored and financial consideration never considered because of the official government notion of "the black man has no rights that the white man is bound to respect." We must form a more perfect union here in America prior to emposing a myth of fabrication of the world.

False Negro mythology celebrated our ‘ancient future’ expansion of “Light Rail” to the City of Folsom, California by accepted design. Leidesdorff Plaza is no longer officially recognized and may never again call attention to the fact that every inch of rail used in the expansion of our transportation infrastructure has occurred on historic Leidesdorff Ranch.

The Historic Folsom Line terminates on top of Leidesdorff Lid, just prior to crossing the American River at historic Negro Bar, downstream from the historic community of Negro Hill upon the high ground above the flood plain of Northern California.

The First railroad west of the Mississippi River, the Sacramento Valley Railroad, followed a nearly identical path according to a 1854 survey map, drawn by chief engineer T.D. Judah, which clearly identifies the major regional assets of Sacramento County. The first Republican Governor of California, Leland Stanford was a grocery clerk in Negro Hill while the Negro community was disenfranshised by Califonria law and later inundated by the Folsom Lake.

Governor Stanford obtained a U.S. Presidental monoply from Republican Abraham Lincoln with a Railroad Act of land aquisition. The Homestead Act of 1862 distributed nearly 300 million acres of land in America excluded equal opportunity for African Americans as the Department of Agriculture was created, just prior to the Emancipation Proclamation for some Negroes.

Why ask why? hmmm... Why seek the truth.

The Greatest California Gold Rush Legacy predates the wealthiest Gold Claim in America, the Kennedy Gold Wheel Site, stolen from African American pioneers after the mysterious death of William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. You have no legal right to a land claim. No right to testify in court against a white man. Homestead a gold claim, Negro please.

Thankfully, Mr. Joe Larson gave his life to share this story and his will must continue to share the gift of knowledge. May 1966, Leidesdorff Plaza was dedication by the Negro Museum and Library Association of Sacramento. 2004 a dedication of the William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. Memorial Highway began our effort to reestablish Leidesdorff Ranch, building upon natural elements to return and showcase positive contributions of people of African Ancestry as a mutually beneficial point of respect and reverence that can bring people together in truth.

Unfortunately, the recent examples of Gold Rush Days 2005, historic Black Culture Day, California State Fair 2005, California Admission Day 2005, California Colored Convention 2005 and announced plans for World Ag Expo 2006 demonstrate a desire to uniquely exclude our contribution toward the forward flow of humanity and alienate historic authenticity as it relates to demonstrating positive contributions from people of African ancestry in California.

The ongoing bold and courageous bipartisan leadership of our elder political statesmen Dave Cox, Mervyn Dymally, and Darrell Steinberg whom help facilitate the establishment of the William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. Memorial Highway, as a first step, to encourage a broader recognition and desire towards preservation and restoration of an authentic legacy of Leidesdorff Ranch are not common knowledge.

There is no greater story of the California Gold Rush than the golden legacy of the wealthiest man person in 1848 California, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. “African Founding Father of California.”

We accept all serious academic challenge to dispute our primary source documentation, in any pubic forum, of the authenticity of supreme African contribution to the California Gold Rush in Sacramento County, California.

The world awaits offical recognition of the African Founding Father of California who was the key catalyst for Agricultural Export in the Great State of Califorina.

Today, the World Ag Expo, continues a long line of racial hatred toward Africans in California and very few seem to care.

Leidesdorff Ranch Project
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association
P.O. Box 5071
Sacramento, California 95817
(916) 220-5320
Leidesdorffproject [at] yahoo.com