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en-wikipedia-org-6914		Salinas, California - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10107	1497	73	For a short while after the transition, California was ruled by martial law.[15] On September 9, 1850, California was admitted to the Union and became a State, celebrated as California Admission Day. In the 1850s a junction of two main stage coach routes was located 18 miles east of Monterey and along the big bend of what is locally referred to as the Alisal Slough.[16] In 1854, six years after becoming a part of the United States, a group of American settlers living in the vicinity of this route-junction opened a post office at the junction, naming their town "Salinas," apparently a reference to the original "Rancho Las Salinas" name for the area,[11] which in turn was named in Spanish for the salt marshes of the area around the central Salinas slough, which was drained.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6914.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6914.txt