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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRRW_el-senador-mine_San-Jose-CA.html
Cinnabar was first found in the Senador Mine area before 1863. Systematic development recovered more than 20,000 flasks (1,500,000 pounds) between 1909 and 1926.
Under the direction of John Drew, development started by trenching the outcrops of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRRN_history-of-madronia-cemetery_Saratoga-CA.html
Madronia Cemetery is Saratoga's oldest institution. The first burials occurred on this site in 1854. Other burials followed over the next several years prior to its dedication as a cemetery.
This land was originally part of the Quito Land Grant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRPD_bulmore-house_San-Jose-CA.html
Only complete four room, oven-dried brick house in New Almaden.Appointed Cashier, Hacienda Forman and Secretary of the Miners Fund by the Manager Mr. Randol, Robert R. Bulmore moved into this cottage in September, 1878.Mr. Bulmore's avocation was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRPA_san-francisquito-creek-watershed_Palo-Alto-CA.html
By the time America entered World War II in 1941, the creek had been straightened at its outlet to the Bay near the Palo Alto Municipal Airport. The Army built Dipple General Hospital on land near the creek in Menlo Park. Later, Stanford Research …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMROX_hutchinson-cloud-smith-store-samuel-cloud-house_Saratoga-CA.html
These two buildings appear to be connected, but they were actually built by different owners more than a decade apart.
The building on the right was a general store built circa 1884 by John Hutchinson, who became Saratoga's postmaster in 1886. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMROR_the-hauck-house_San-Jose-CA.html
Built by Barron, Forbes & Company in the late 1840's, this cottage is one of several houses with a brick basement. Individuals who rented this house included William Flemming, John Marr, George Granger, and Thomas Barrett.
Theodore S. Shaw, a s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMROO_robert-scott-house_San-Jose-CA.html
Robert Scott, a native of Canada, arrived in New Almaden in 1864. He was co-inventor of the Huttner & Scott Furnace in 1876, the furnace that revolutionized the reduction of quicksilver and saved the Quicksilver Mining Company from bankruptcy. Thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMROK_huttner-house_San-Jose-CA.html
Home of H. J. Huttner, a mechanical engineer, who in 1874 worked with brick layer Robert Scott to design and build the first highly efficient ore extracting furnace.
This house of modest wood and brick construction was typical of others along t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMROI_hacienda-hotel_San-Jose-CA.html
Here in 1848 was built the first two story adobe hotel in California. Originally a boarding house, the building was converted into a small hotel to accommodate visitors at the mining settlement. Destroyed by fire in 1874 and later rebuilt.
Afte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMROH_hard-rock-miners_San-Jose-CA.html
Drilling contests were the miners' own distinctive event. The contest pitted individuals or teams of two miners against one another. They centered on hand-drilling, an essential aspect of the hard-rock miners' work. Drilling contests tested the pa…