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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Fort Gunnybags -- April 27, 2013
This plaque, on Sacramento near Davis, marks the site of Fort Gunnybags, a warehouse barricaded with sandbags, that served as headquarters of the Vigilance Committee of 1856. James Casey and Charles Cora were hanged here on 22-May-1856.
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