Georgiana Slough, is a

slough Slough () is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. It is part of the historic county of Buckinghamshire. In 2021, the ...

within

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. It is located in the

Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Central California and Northern California Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geocultural region that ...

, and links both the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River above their confluence in the Delta near Pittsburg, at the head of Suisun Bay, through its connection with the Mokelumne River. The entrance to the slough on the Sacramento River is just below Walnut Grove, at and runs between Tyler Island and Andrus Island to where it has its confluence with the Mokelumne River at northwest of Bouldin Island just above that rivers confluence with the San Joaquin River.

History

Georgiana Slough was first used by

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s in the 19th century as a shortcut between

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and Stockton. It is named after the ''Georgiana'', the first steamboat to use the route in April 1850., Scott, Erving M. and Others, ''Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part I'', Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, January 1895, pp.5-16
from quod.lib.umich.edu accessed March 10, 2015 San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 99, 9 March 1902, p.6 FIRST BOATBUILDER ON THE PACIFIC COAST by J. M. Scanland
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References

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