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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S7L_logging-in-el-dorado-county_Pollock-Pines-CA.html
By the end of the war with Mexico in 1847, California's non-native population was a mere 15,000. The 49ers pushed the population of El Dorado County beyond 20,000 by 1850. As winter approached, the minors replaced their tents and shanties with woo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S7K_the-california-gold-rush_Pollock-Pines-CA.html
The California gold rush followed Captain John Sutter's logging effort in the Coloma valley. On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found gold in the tail-race at Sutter's Mill. This discovery incited the greatest migration of mankind in history t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S7J_bullion-bend-robbery_Pollock-Pines-CA.html
On June 30, 1864, two Pioneer Line coaches were stopped at gunpoint on the Pony Express Trail at a sharp bend on the trail forever to be known as Bullion Bend in Pollock Pines. Both coaches were robbed by a band of Confederate irregulars, all memb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S7I_the-mormon-emigrant-trail_Pollock-Pines-CA.html
Shortly after James W Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, his Mormon laborers were re-called to the Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah. On April, 9, 1848, a plan was devised to cut a wagon trail through the uncharted Sierra Nevada frontier. The t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RTZ_georgetown-school_Georgetown-CA.html
Education for children on the Georgetown Divide began with home schools for a few gold miner families in the early 1850s. The first permanent school was established in 1854, on School Street. It was replaced in 1890 by a two-story school house on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OGC_site-of-echo-summit_South-Lake-Tahoe-CA.html
In 1968, Echo Summit served as a high-altitude training center and site of the U.S. Olympic Men's Track and Field Trials. Four world records were shattered here on the track carved out of the El Dorado National Forest. The U.S. team selected for t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FXJ_wakamatsu-tea-and-silk-farm-colony_Placerville-CA.html
Site of the only tea and silk farm established in California. First agricultural settlement of pioneer Japanese immigrants who arrived at Gold Hill on June 8, 1869. Despite the initial success, it failed to prosper. It marked the beginning of Japa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUL_200th-anniversary-of-james-w-marshalls-birth_Placerville-CA.html
On the occasion of James W. Marshall's 200th birthday, the Native Sons of the Golden West rededicate this monument erected in his honor. Born in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey to Phillip and Sarah Wilson Marshall on October 8, 1810, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUK_james-w-marshall_Placerville-CA.html
Erected by the State of Californiain memory ofJames W. Marshall1810 - 1885Whose discovery of goldJanuary 24, 1848in the tailrace of Sutter's Mill at Colomastarted the great rush of Argonauts.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOJ_the-stamp-mill_Placerville-CA.html
Local residents remember that the thunderous crashing staccato of the ore stamp mill could be heard for miles in the narrow canyon. The song of the stamps had been a familiar sound in this area for since George Cozens erected the first mill here i…