https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9 en-us 2017-02-07 18:40:29 UTC 2025-11-01 16:08:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152256445 Lucy stoddard wakefield was a woman that can make food for people.]]> 2017-02-07 18:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152256445 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152259029 Lucy  Stoddard Wakefield was a master pie maker, too In 1849]]> 2017-02-07 18:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152259029 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152262016 She looked around and decided that the Argonauts, as the miners were called, needed coffee and dessert as consolation for hard days in the mines.]]> 2017-02-07 18:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152262016 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152265294 she sold them from her down-town home. Folks would stop in for coffee ($.50) and a quarter of a pie for $.50. She sold an average of 20 dozen (240 pies) a week. ]]> 2017-02-07 19:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152265294 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152266461 When the young man arrived at Old Dry Diggings (now Placerville), it was the last day of August 1853.

]]> 2017-02-07 19:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152266461 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152551786 John’s first wheelbarrow was a dismal failure.]]> 2017-02-08 17:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152551786 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152552743  He soon was given the name, “Wheelbarrow Johnny.”

]]> 2017-02-08 17:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152552743 607922 https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152554117 By 1855, John sold his wheelbarrows for $10 each and had saved $3,000.]]> 2017-02-08 17:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/607922/zalix82etig9/wish/152554117