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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGO4_old-isabella_Lake-Isabella-CA.html
Located to the northwest of here, Isabella, a ranching and mining town, was named by Steven Barton in 1893, after Queen Isabella of Spain, Patron of Christopher Columbus. A post office was established here in 1896. In 1953 the community was moved …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGNU_campsite-of-edward-kern_Lake-Isabella-CA.html
Near this spot at the confluence of the north and south forks of the Kern River the Theodore Talbot Party of Captain John C. Fremont's third expedition to the West camped for several weeks during December 1845 and January 1846. The river was named…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGNM_sheepherders-cabin_Bakersfield-CA.html
Spanish missionaries brought the first domesticated sheep to California. During the Gold Rush, sheep provided food and textiles to people seeking their fortune in California.
In 1906, Thomas Quinn built this cabin to provide housing for shephe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGNH_barnes-log-cabin_Bakersfield-CA.html
After being injured while fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War, Thomas Barnes came to Kern County looking for opportunity.
In 1868, a tremendous flood washed trees from the Sierra Nevada Mountains down the Kern River depositing th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGNG_norris-school_Bakersfield-CA.html
One-room school houses dotted the rural Western landscape to serve sparse populations before the automobile made transportation to towns faster and easier.
This one-room school was built in 1882 north of the town of Rosedale on land donated by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGN5_kern-city-french-bakery_Bakersfield-CA.html
East Bakersfield, originally named Sumner, was founded by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1874. The name of the town was changed to Kern in 1893 and shortly thereafter was called Kern City.
This building, constructed in 1910, was originally th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGN4_adobe-house_Bakersfield-CA.html
Adobe was a common material used to construct buildings from the Spanish mission period of California history through the 1930s.
Adobe is a sun-dried brick made from soil or clay. This structure was built to resemble an adobe dwelling in Kern C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGMM_kern-county-korean-war-memorial_Bakersfield-CA.html
[Center Panel:]KoreaThe Forgotten WarJune 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953
33,741 - Americans Killed in Action2,835 - Non-Hostile Deaths103,283 - Americans Wounded────────────γ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGMG_howell-house_Bakersfield-CA.html
In 1891, William Howell hired local carpenter John Singleton to construct this Queen Anne style Victorian home on the northeast corner of 17th and H Streets in Bakersfield.
William Howell moved with his parents and sisters from Nebraska to Ker…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGME_glennville-adobe_Fredericksburg-CA.html
Kern County's oldest residence. Built before Civil War by Thomas Fitzgerald as trading post at junction of two Indian trails. Present Greenhorn Road follows east - west trail (later McFarlane Toll Road) to Kern River mining districts. Town named i…