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Dev Notes 19: California had Approximately Five Capitals in Five Years

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Dev Notes (DN) document progress towards some larger project or article. The notes builds on towards small project about California and state capitals. This documented in its current form was loosely researched with some LLM assistance, and should not be viewed as authorative. California has had among the most capital cities of any US state. How many? Well it seems pretty unclear. It is somewhere around five, but exact count seems somewhat debated. All the capital changes occured in a short span right before and after the state's formation around 1850. This amount of movement appears unique among states. Today Monterey is a fairly small city of about 30,000 people, often little known except for it's Aquarium, which gets around 2 million visitors a year this the number Wikipedia gives at least, but the actual source seems to be from dividing a source that it had "more than 50 million vistors" between 1984 and 2016 with no recent anual number given. Whatever it is, it's a very large aqu

Dev Notes 19: California had Approximately Five Capitals in Five Years By David Gros . November 26, 2025 . Version 0.1.0 Dev Notes (DN) document progress towards some larger project or article. The notes build on towards a small project about California and state capitals. This document in its current form was loosely researched with Wikipedia + LLM assistance, and should not be viewed as authoritative. California has had among the most capital cities of any US state. How many? Well, it seems pretty unclear. It is somewhere around five, but exact count seems somewhat debated. All the capital c

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