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Have you ever seen an old photograph and wished you could visit the place and see what it was like 100-200 years ago? Better yet, how about saving certain historic areas so that people can visit it and learn about the past in an exciting and interesting format!

Rush Ranch was started during the late Gold Rush period by Hiram Rush and his family. The ranch has been preserved, or saved from destruction, by the Solano Open Space Foundation, who manages it for public use. We asked the class why the preservation of the Rush Ranch area was important to the following groups:

Students have prepared their research and answers on this web site. We used text books, history books, digital pictures, QuickTime Virtual Reality, movie clips (i-Movie), primary source documents, interviews with experts, newspaper archives, the local historical societies, and local historians to put this project together.