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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLL6_railtown-1897_Jamestown-CA.html
Location of general offices and maintenance shops for the Sierra Railroad, 1897 - 1955. Steam passenger excursion trains operated, 1971 - 1979.
The railroad served many Mother Lode mines and was a trunk line for the Sugar Pine (Pickering), West…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8JD_don-pedro-lake_Jamestown-CA.html
Created by Don Pedro Dam on the Tuolumne River near LaGrange. This project was completed in 1971 to provide irrigation, domestic water, flood control, electricity, recreation and fish enhancement. Constructed by City and County of San Francisco He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8E4_montezuma_Jamestown-CA.html
First record of Montezuma was June 1850 when partners Solomon Miller and Peter K. Aurand, proprietors of the 'Montezuma Tent,' were attacked and Aurand killed by a group of Mexicans during the foreign miners tax excitement of that period. Due to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RB_chinese-camp_Jamestown-CA.html
Reportedly founded about 1849 by group of Englishmen who employed Chinese as miners. Much surface gold found on hills and flats. Headquarters for stage lines in early 1850's, and for several California Chinese mining companies. First Chinese tong …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3CG_jacksonville_Jamestown-CA.html
Near this site, now inundated by the waters of Don Pedro Reservoir, stood the historic town of Jacksonville. It was settled by Julian Smart who planted the first garden and orchard in the spring of 1849. Named for Colonel A. M. Jackson. In 1850 it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3CE_woods-crossing_Jamestown-CA.html
Tuolumne County history begins here. Early in 1848 a party of Philadelphia prospectors under the leadership of James Woods discovered gold 500 feet south east of this marker, where the old road crosses the creek now bearing Woods' name. James Sava…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP_mark-twain-bret-harte-trail_Jamestown-CA.html
Known as gateway of Mother Lode and to southern mines, gold first discovered in Tuolumne County west of this point at Woods Creek by James Woods shortly before town was founded by Col. George James, August 8, 1848. Large quantities of gold recover…