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Thomas Calley Perkins, namesake of Perkins Station, appears in this 1865 photograph. A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, it has been written that he walked to California in 1850. In the same year, he settled in Brighton, which had been located near what became Sacramento State University. He took up work as a teamster, dealer in hay, and wood-cutter and eventually settled in what would become Perkins Station, located five-and-a-half miles east of Sacramento. There, he would tend to 248 acres for grain and hay production and 2 acres for grape vines. The Post Office near his farm was named in his honor in 1864. He died from a stroke at his Perkins Station residence in January 1901, surrounded by family.
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