3

The number of gold medals won by Folsom resident Debbie Meyer at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Meyer was the first female swimmer to win three individual freestyle swimming gold medals in a single Olympics—a record that still remains unbeaten today.

13

Number of attendees at the first meeting of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. The first meeting, called by “Miss Lilly O,” was held in Jackson on September 11, 1886. Today the Native Daughters of the Golden West have registered over 35,000 Pioneers.

997

The prisoner number of Nora O’Brien, Folsom Prison’s first woman prisoner. She was received on November 7, 1885, sentenced to one year for petty larceny, and was released on September 7, 1886. It was rare for Folsom Prison to house female prisoners, and rarer still for entire terms (the norm was only a few days). The practice ended in 1926.