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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CH_manzanar_Gloucester-Courthouse-CA.html
In the early part of the World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by Executive Order No. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942.
Manzanar, the first of ten such concentration camps, was bounded by barbe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C5_putnams-stone-cabin_Independence-CA.html
One hundred thirty feet west of this site, Charles Putnam built the first cabin of permanent habitation in what is now Inyo County in August 1861. The building served as a home, trading post, hospital, and "fort" for early settlers, as well as a s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C4_inyo-county-courthouse_Independence-CA.html
Architect: William H. Weeks Contractor: McCombs and Son
Board of Supervisors George W. Naylor * Amos Hancock Thomas Thomson, Jr. * W.V. Butler Charles Partridge Accepted: November 8, 1921 The Inyo County Courthouse is located on land deeded t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C3_mary-austins-home_Independence-CA.html
1868 - 1934 "But if ever you come beyond the borders as far as the town that lies in a hill dimple at the foot of Kearsarge, never leave it until you have knocked on the door of the brown house under the willow-tree at the end of the village stree…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2_camp-independence_Independence-CA.html
At the request of settlers, Colonel George Evans led a military expedition to this site on July 4, 1862. Hence its name "Independence". Indian hostilities ceased and the camp closed. War again broke out in 1865 and the camp was reoccupied as Fort …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C1_owensville_Bishop-CA.html
The first white man's settlement in northern Owens Valley was built here in 1861 and two years later prospectors named it Owensville. It thrived for some time but in 1864, as mining in the White Mts. petered out the miners moved on to better diggi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C0_pine-creek-mine_Bishop-CA.html
West of this spot, gold was discovered in the Pine Creek drainage by Civil War veterans. It was not until April, 1916, when tungsten was discovered by four men: O.E. Vaughn, A.E. & C.C. Beauregard, and James Sproul on their claims, Blizzard 1, 2, …