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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BV9_the-greathouse-dewitt-building_Yreka-CA.html
Southern sympathizers George and Ridgely Greathouse purchased this lot in 1858, and then resold it for $700 a year later. The ground floor of this presently existing building was constructed in 1859 of locally kilned brick, and housed new owner R.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUU_yreka-chinese-cemetery_Yreka-CA.html
There are two plaques located at the kiosk next to the Yreka Chinese Cemetery.
The Yreka Chinese Cemetery was created by the Yreka city Board of Trustees in August 1877. The United States government issued a patent to the Central Pacific Railro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUS_greenhorn_Yreka-CA.html
Near this spot in March of 1851 a real "Greenhorn" Englishman traveling through the country inquired at the Bean-McConnell diggings where he might acquire a gold mine. Mr. Bean as a joke sent him to the most unlikely spot up the hill and told him …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUR_yreka_Yreka-CA.html
Founded in March 1851 with the discovery of Gold in the nearby "flats", Yreka quickly became the commercial and transportation hub for the surrounding communities and mining camps. Yreka's tents and shanties gave way to more substantial commercial…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUQ_carnegie-library-building_Yreka-CA.html
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior1915
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUH_chamberlain-stimmel-building_Yreka-CA.html
H.E. Stimmel, a German native, purchased this building from William Chamberlain in 1856, and promptly opened a stove shop. Initially selling parlor and cooking stoves, he gradually expanded his inventory and turned the business into a general hard…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUG_peters-dewitt-building_Yreka-CA.html
332 Godfrey Peters converted the east half of this building into a theater in 1904. The Peter's Opera House, complete with sloped floor, stage and two balconies, opened to a packed house with the showing of a five-act play. A bandstand was built o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUF_peters-dewitt-building_Yreka-CA.html
330 Two buildings rested on this site in the 1850s, one a brewery and the other a bakery that advertised 12 loaves of bread of $1.00. Fire broke out in the bakery in 1864 destroying all of its contents and much of the surrounding structures. The b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUD_charles-peters-building_Yreka-CA.html
The presence of this on an early Yreka map indicates that it was constructed on or before 1856. In was home to Charles Peters' Yreka Brewery and Saloon, with the saloon occupying the front portion of the building and the brewery the back. Peters w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUC_ruehle-building_Yreka-CA.html
In 1852, Frederick Ruehle, the second owner of this property built a two-story brick structure with iron shutters on this site. When Alois Wetzel became the new owner in 1866, he put in a shaving saloon (sic) and bathhouse downstairs while the Yre…