Sacramento County Biographies G. VALENSIN Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. Page 257 Lives at Hicksville, twenty-one miles from Sacramento. He owns two thousand five hundred acres of land. He was born in Italy in 1852. A view of his place is given on another page. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.