Encyclopedia > Niles, California

Article Content

Niles, California

In 1912, Niles was chosen as the home of one of the first West Coast motion picture companies, Essanay Studios. Charlie Chaplin and Broncho Billy Anderson filmed some of their most famous silent movies in Niles.

In 1956 Niles became part of the new city Fremont along with 4 other towns.

For more information, http://www.niles.org/

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Quadratic formula

... sides yields <math>x+\frac{b}{2a}=\frac{\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}.</math> Subtracting b/(2a) from both sides, w ...