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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12FJ_in-memory-of-the-lumberjack_Chester-CA.html
They were fallers, buckers, swampers, barkers, skidders, snipers, doggers, greasers, bull punchers, skinners, hook tenders, choker setters, rigging slingers, high climbers, donkey men, whistle punks, river pigs, and more. Once they were lumberjack…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12FI_mt-lassen-club_Chester-CA.html
Built in 1911 by Judge Gay, it was the first grocery store between Susanville and Red Bluff. On May 27, 1932 Gordon Purdy turned it into a bar named the Mt. Lassen Club. Margaret and Lee Baker became the club's owners in August of 1963. Now the of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12FH_chars-beauty-salon_Chester-CA.html
Built in the early 1900's this building was originally a dance hall, owned by Jack Wardlow. In 1926 Leo Speegle bought it and in 1933 it became the Eastside Cafe. In 1945 it became a recreation center, known as the Chester Bowl. Around 1988 Char A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12FF_olde-towne-corner-store_Chester-CA.html
The "Chester Store", now known as the Old Towne Corner Store was built in 1912 by George Olsen after he & his brothers subdivided the Olsen Ranch. It is one of the oldest buildings in Chester.
It was purchased by Sue & Harry Isbell in 1929. Bil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12E6_seneca_Canyondam-CA.html
Gold was found in 1851 and a wild mining town was born with a dance hall, feed store, livery, blacksmith, post office, grocery, rooming houses and a hotel with solar heated showers. The canyon's mines included the Sunnyside, Lucky Chance, White Li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12E4_bransford-mcintyre-store_Greenville-CA.html
McIntyre & Co.'s General Store was on this site in the mid 1870's. The building was burned in 1881 but was immediately replace with the brick building that is standing today. By 1883 the new general store included the telegraph & Wells Fargo Expre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12E3_bransford-mcintyre-warehouse_Greenville-CA.html
This frame building was built between 1877 & 1881. Bransford and McIntyre purchased the building in 1881 as a warehouse for their store. Later it served the stores of J.R. Murray & then Frank Miller. This is the site of the Greenville Museum, dona…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12DD_hope-lodge-no-234-f-am_Beckwourth-CA.html
Originally built in 1875 and twice destroyed by fire, 1898 & 1909, this edifice continues a century of Masonic service to Sierra Valley.
Dedicated in the spirit of brotherhood Sept. 6, 1975 by Las Plumas del Oro Chapter, E Clampus Vitus
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12D7_sincerity-lodge-132-f-a-m_Greenville-CA.html
This historic building was built in 1878 by John McBeth and D.D. Compton, merchants, for use as a warehouse. As such it played an important role when Greenville's two foundries, flour mill, sarsaparilla works, brickyard, wagon shop, and sawmill su…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12D5_taylorsville-cemetery_Taylorsville-CA.html
This picturesque cemetery dates to the 1850s. Within it's hallowed grounds sleep many pioneers of Plumas County and particularly Indian Valley, some of whom are:Jobe Terrill Taylor, founder of Taylorsville; Abbie Fort, African-American beekeeper a…