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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODW_life-in-bodie_Bridgeport-CA.html
Men, women and children came from all of the U.S. states, and from the world, to live and work here during the Bodie heyday. At the height of the boom in 1881, Bodie claimed 65 saloons, 18 lodging houses and hotels, three breweries, wholesale liqu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODV_the-red-cloud-mine_Bridgeport-CA.html
In 1973, the Red Cloud's shaft house and adjoining structures were torn down. The head frame of the hoist works and some of the hoist equipment were moved here for safe keeping.
The Red Cloud Mine operation housed the equipment you see illustrat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXQ9_mono-county-memorial-hall_Bridgeport-CA.html
Alta Lodge No. 333, Free and Accepted Masons was chartered on October 15. 1897.
The original lodge hall was in the brick building at the corner of Hwy. 395 and Hayes Street. The Lodge moved to this location in 1955. An ever changing society cau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXQ7_hunewill-upper-sawmill_Bridgeport-CA.html
Napoleon Bonaparte Hunewill and his wife Esther arrive in San Francisco from Maine in 1859, and early in 1861 they came to Aurora. Late fall found them building a home at Buckeye Hot Springs. In 1862, N.B. Hunewill has the Eagle Creek Lumber Mill …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXOG_east-walker-toll-house_Bridgeport-CA.html
Henry Hayes lived in the toll house building on this site and collected tolls beginning about 1880 and continued until the county purchased the road in 1915. State ownership occurred August 21, 1833. Tolls were 25? for saddle horsed, 75? for teams…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP66_masonic_Bridgeport-CA.html
Although gold was discovered here in 1860, it was not until about 1900 that Joseph Green staked the rich Jump Up Joe Mine. On the Fourth of July, 1902, J. S. Bryan and Caleb Dorsey made an exciting find and called it the Pittsburg-Liberty to honor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP5X_bridgeport-chronicle-union_Bridgeport-CA.html
On this site stood the original office of the Bridgeport Chronicle - Union newspaper. In 1880, while still publishing the "Bodie Chronicle", the Folger Brothers, Robert and Alex, started the "Bridgeport Union". The first number of the Bridgeport p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP5B_frontier-justice_Bridgeport-CA.html
On this site, Bridgeport's most sensational court trial occurred June 9th, 1891. Ah Quong Tai, a local Chinese businessman accused of the cannibalistic murder of Poker Tom, a well known Paiute Indian, appeared in court defended by two attorneys, J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP4Z_lundy_Bridgeport-CA.html
Home of the May Lundy Mine. Site of W. J. Lundy sawmill supplying lumber to Bodie in 1878. Organized as the Homer Mining District in 1879 by Wasson, Nye and Homer. Plagued by snowslides and partially destroyed by fire in 1886, Lundy's page of Mono…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7AW_poor-farm_Bridgeport-CA.html
It began as the county hospital in Bodie in 1879. With the decline of Bodie in the mid 1880's, the hospital was moved eventually to a site east of this monument and Highway 395 to the rear of the small meadow that you see. At that time it became k…