You searched for City|State|Country: , ca us
Page 11 of 14 — Showing results 101 to 110 of 132
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EF_columbia-school-house_Columbia-CA.html
In early 1860 the school lot was purchased, building plans selected, and the cornerstone laid. By fall the building was completed by a Mr. Donegan at a total cost of $4898. Dedication ceremonies were held, as was a grand calico party to raise mone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OF_emigrant-trail-terminus_Sonora-CA.html
Sonora was the goal of many emigrants traveling the various overland and sea routes.
The 1852 Clark-Skidmore Party of emigrants from Elizabethtown, Ohio and Lawrenceburg, Indiana struggled to force a wagon train up the Walker River and over the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OE_bonanza-mine_Sonora-CA.html
Discovered 1851, by Chileans, they took out a substantial amount of free gold.Early 1870's acquired by James Divoll, Charles Clark, and Joseph Bray, sinking a shaft 1500 ft. in 1877. Big strike came in 1879, 990 lbs. of gold was removed in one wee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4O9_westside-flume-lumber-company_Tuolumne-CA.html
May 31, 1889 Henry J. Crocker, Wellington Gregg, Thomas Bullock and Charles Gardner formed the Westside Flume and Lumber Company, for a total cost of 361,000.00 dollars. The mill was built, and by the end of the year was in operation, and by 1900 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4EP_standard-township_Sonora-CA.html
Starting as a Mi-Wuk village, Standard was ranchland during the gold rush era, when the murderous Jim Lyons lived here. In 1909 Xavier Fassler sold his 567-acre dairy ranch to Standard Lumber Co. By the 1920's the town had been sold to Pickering L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM48Q_rothers-corner_Sonora-CA.html
The corner property was originally called Patrick's Corner, after George Washington Patrick, an early settler of Sonora and one of its first mayors. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Patrick left Sonora to volunteer his services to the Con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM48D_soulsbyville_Soulsbyville-CA.html
Ben Soulsby first settled here in 1851. His son, young Ben, when age 12, discovered the first gold in the area by accident. One evening, while walking the family cow home, he saw some gold, told his father who, upon investigation, found a rich vei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM48C_soulsbyville_Soulsbyville-CA.html
The first community in Tuolumne County to be founded (1855) entirely upon the operation of a lode mine. Site of the famous Soulsby Mine (discovered by Benjamine Soulsby) which produced over $6,500,00 by 1900. The first hardrock miners who worked m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM46G_sonora-pass-mono-road_Twain-Harte-CA.html
Toll gate, fine hotel and stables near this spot 1850's. Jedediah Smith reputed to have been first white man to cross over or near Sonora Pass, 1827. Portion of road built by Tuolumne County Water Co., 1852. Surveyed to Bridgeport, Mono County, 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45S_mark-twain-cabin_Sonora-CA.html
Stopping place of packers carrying supplies to miners. Often 200 jackasses on hill over night furnishing concert suggesting name "Jackass Hill". Very coarse gold found here. $10,000 taken from 100 square feed of ground. Quartz found containing 3/4…