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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1007_big-gap-flume_Groveland-CA.html
In 1859 a wooden suspension flume 2200' long was constructed across this valley by G.W. Holt and August Conrad as a link in the Golden Rock Ditch system which conveyed the water of the South Fork of the Tuolumne River to the mining areas of Grovel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1006_iron-door-saloon_Groveland-CA.html
This building is the oldest liquor-serving establishment in the state of California. It began life in 1852 as "The Granite Store" built by Peter King. It operated as a general mercantile with, of course, the obligatory "plank over flour barrels' s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1005_arrastra_Groveland-CA.html
The Spanish first introduced the arrastra to the New World in the 1500's. The work "arrastra" come from the Spanish word "arrastre", meaning to drag along the ground. When ore was quarried out of the hard rock mines, the quartz had to be crushed t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYSJ_groveland-hotel_Groveland-CA.html
Built in 1849 for Joshua D. Crippen and Co., it served as an adobe trading post and dwelling house until 1865. George Reid bought the property in 1851. Sold to Matthew Foote in 1866 who converted the building and opened the Garrote Hotel, renamed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9JL_groveland_Groveland-CA.html
Formerly called "First Garrote" traced to hanging of Mexican for stealing horse. Adobe buildings still standing (1949) built in 1849 as shown by dated adobe brick taken from partition. Gold discovered here 1849. Thousands in placer gold taken from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99B_joseph-e-lemos_Groveland-CA.html
InitiatedIone Lodge 51 & Ione Rebeka Lodge 270 - 1931TransferredYosemite Lodge 97 - 1941Big Oak Rebeka Lodge 259 - 1947District Deputy Grand Master1943 & 1958District Deputy Grand Marshall1948 & 1953Appointed Grand Herald of Grand Lodge1947Appoint…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM73G_big-oak-flat_Groveland-CA.html
First called Savage Diggins after the man who discovered gold here, 1848. Renamed Big Oak Flat about 1850 after giant oak tree that stood in the center of town, near this spot. Oak, which was about 13 feet in diameter and was undermined in 1869 an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KT_second-garrote_Groveland-CA.html
Sizable settlement established at this rich placer location in 1849 by miners spreading east from Big Oak Flat and Groveland. Famous Hangman's Tree, part of which still stands (1950), reported to have been instrumental in death of a number of law-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5R0_in-memory-of-david-erickson_Groveland-CA.html
A U.S. Forest Service crew leader from Siskiyou County, Calif. lost his life while fighting the Stanislaus Complex Fire which destroyed 147,000 acres. For the love of the forest he gave the ultimate sacrifice September 11, 1987.
Sit and rest a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLR_hetch-hetchy-railroad_Groveland-CA.html
Masterminding the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Project was the brilliant chief engineer Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy. One of his first priorities was to build a reliable and high-capacity standard gauge railway that could traverse the rugged terr…