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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K1Q_a-seasonal-lake_CA.html
Mirror Lake was once regarded by park scientists as a stream-fed lake slowly filling in to become a meadow. As hydrologists have developed a more complex understanding of the water's dynamics, they now theorize that the "lake" is a pool in a seaso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K1O_bracken-fern-and-baskets_CA.html
Just above Mirror Lake, bracken ferns grow in large tracts. The root-like portion of the fern (rhizome) is favored for making the black designs in Southern Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute baskets. Because of the rich sandy sediments here, bracken fern …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K1N_visitors-at-mirror-lake_CA.html
The opening of Yosemite to tourism in the 1850s coincided with America's glorification of nature and fascination with the picturesque. Early accounts of Mirror Lake are full of such sentiments. Visitors today still express many of the same emotion…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K1M_selling-the-sublime_CA.html
Mirror Lake's magnificent scenery was as much a commodity to be harvested as was the ice and sand. In the 1860s, entrepreneurs built a toll road to the lake, and here at the end of the carriage road, they opened an inn in 1870. Later the inn becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C6V_wawona-hotel_YOSEMITE-NATIONAL-PARK-CA.html
After several pioneer lodging structures were destroyed by fire, Henry Washburn and John Bruce had this building, opened in April, 1879, erected. Bruce died in it in 1882, but Henry, John, Edward, and later Clarence Washburn owned and operated it …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18YE_john-muir-the-woodcutter_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
In 1869, innkeeper James Hutchings hired a young wilderness explorer named John Muir to rebuild and operate his sawmill. Muir worked here for almost two years, milling trees blown down in a storm to build improvements at Hutchings' Yosemite Valley…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18MQ_the-ahwahneechee_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
This marker is composed of four plaques secured front and back to two pillars. Adapting to a New Life For thousands of years, Indians adapted to climate changes, fires and droughts in the Sierra. They also survived conflicts with other local…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18MP_a-home-for-rangers_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
Stephen T. Mather, the first director of the National Park Service, employed park rangers to guide tourists and protect parks from poachers. In 1920, Mather hired architect Charles Summer to construct a home for members of his newly organized rang…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18LE_a-storied-landscape_YOSEMITE-NATIONAL-PARK-CA.html
The open vista below you, Big Meadows, has many stories to share. American Indians have been using this area for thousands of years. It was also center of activity for some of the first Euro-American settlers. By 1874, the Coulterville and Yosemit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18K4_olmsted-point_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
This turnout was named in honor of famed landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), and his son, Frederick, Jr. when Tioga road opened to automobile traffic in 1961. Olmsted senior was considered the father of American landscape archi…
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