On July 13, 1852, the Wells Fargo & Company opens their first banks in California. 

On July 13, 1852, Henry Wells and William Fargo opened Wells, Fargo & Company banks in Sacramento and San Francisco. It was at 424 Montgomery Street, the company’s San Francisco location, that the company’s first bank transaction took place in California. The location of their Sacramento branch was at the corner of Second and J Streets in the B.F. Hastings building.
Because of the Gold Rush, it was not long before Wells Fargo offices opened in other towns throughout the gold region, such as Auburn and Columbia, where the company not only exchanged gold dust for bank notes, but they soon expanded with a delivery service transporting letters, packages, and gold on stagecoaches.
For today, Jared letterpress printed a large photo engraving depicting the historic Wells Fargo Assay office in Folsom, CA. This photo engraving is based on an illustration made by Jane Wandmaker Whitnack in 1942.
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