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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18K2_leconte-memorial-lodge_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
LeConte Memorial Lodge was built by the Sierra Club in 1803/04 in honor of the world-renowned scientist and charter Sierra Club member Joseph LeConte who died near here in 1901. The memorial served as Yosemite Valley's first public information cen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18K1_the-old-yosemite-village_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
Before you lies the site of the Old Yosemite Village. Stretching between the Four Mile Trail and Sentinel Bridge, it was a bustling hamlet during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It consisted of guest cottages, photo studios, a hotel, bathhouse, sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18K0_reawakening-the-meadow_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
Where the Old Village once stood, little evidence remains. In its heyday, thousands of tourists arrived on horseback, in wagons, and in early Model T Fords. They danced, bathed, and slept here. Today this is hard to imagine, as the meadow seems so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18JH_early-tourism_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
After leading the first tourist party into Yosemite Valley in 1855, entrepreneur James Hutchings promoted the Valley's "Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity" in his own .California Magazine. Not long after, a steadily increasing stream of visitors trave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18JG_james-hutchings_Yosemite-Valley-CA.html
After bringing the first tourists to Yosemite Valley, James Hutchings established Hutchings House in 1864. Using the boardinghouse know-how of his mother-in-law, he and his wife launched a career as Yosemite innkeepers. Hutchings was a gracious ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18JF_the-grand-lodge_YOSEMITE-NATIONAL-PARK-CA.html
The first director of the National Park Service, Stephen T. Mather, was as at home in the High Sierra as he was in high society. To ensure Yosemite's protection for future generations, he knew that influential people would have to care about the p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18JE_the-ahwahnee-porte-cochere_YOSEMITE-NATIONAL-PARK-CA.html
The log, trestle-roofed entranceway to The Ahwahnee hotel is called the "porte cochere." The hotel's architect had originally intended that automobiles enter a porte cochere from the meadow side of the hotel through the space where the Indian Room…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18JD_fremont-adobe_Mariposa-CA.html
The oldest building in Mariposa, and the only 3 story adobe building still in use in the state of California.
Erected in 1850 by Col. John C. Fremont and wife Jessie for Palmer Cook & Co., lease holders for the Mariposa Mine and Fremont's agent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM177S_welcome-to-glacier-point_YOSEMITE-NATIONAL-PARK-CA.html
People have been coming to Glacier Point for generations to see one of the most spectacular views on earth. For a panoramic vista of Yosemite Valley, walk along the trail to Glacier Point, located ? mile from where you're now standing. Along the t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM177H_a-view-through-time_YOSEMITE-NATIONAL-PARK-CA.html
A Burning TraditionMiwok people, who called themselves Ahwahneechee, lived in Yosemite Valley for thousands of years. Their traditional practice of regularly burning the meadows and oak woodlands of the Valley contributed to the open landscape fir…