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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BW8_city-meat-market_Yreka-CA.html
This market has been incontinuous operation sinceits construction and is oneof the oldest in California
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The City Meat Market was owned and operated by various individuals since its first owner, Charles Herzog, put up the building in 1854. Through the years innovations such as a horsepower apparatus to run the sausage machine (1867), lowered the pric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BW6_cleland-and-hoyt-building_Yreka-CA.html
The construction history of this building is unknown, although its architectural elements and fabrication materials indicate an 1850s origin. It served as a freight office for Wells Fargo and Company at one time, and was owned by the Franco-Americ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BW5_livingston-and-brothers-building_Yreka-CA.html
Built in 1854, this one-story "fireproof" brick building immediately became a general merchandise store that operated under several owners until 1865 when the Forest House Fruit and Cider Store opened for business, sharing space with the Californi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVG_coltons-block_Yreka-CA.html
David D. Colton arrived in Yreka in 1851, mined for a time, established the Mountain News Herald, and at age 21 became the second Siskiyou County sheriff. His original 1853 hewed-log house on this site was replaced the same year by a brick structu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVF_j-p-smith-l-rosenburg-building_Yreka-CA.html
223 Once a separate building owned by L. Rosenburg, this former dry goods store was turned into a hotel when W.W. Powers bought it and rebuilt after the Great Conflagration of 1871. A bootblack stand within catered to the menfolk of Yreka. When Mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVE_j-p-smith-l-rosenburg-building_Yreka-CA.html
219 A one-story business house initially owned by J.P. Smith occupied this site until the fire of 1871. Rebuilt in 1875, the structure witnessed a myriad of business ventures including several general merchandise stores and a Greek restaurant. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVC_hugo-miller-building_Yreka-CA.html
The Arcade Saloon once stood on this site in 1856 where Lotta Crabtree began her singing and dancing profession, and John C. Heenan, ?The Benicia Boy' started his fighting career. The building was completely destroyed by the Great Fire of 1871, bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVB_w-w-powers-building_Yreka-CA.html
Originally built in 1879 to accommodate three separate businesses, this structure became the Power's Hotel, a fine two-story, twenty-room affair when the second story was added in 1882. Prior to the installation of room-dividing walls, a "Walking …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVA_i-o-o-f-building_Yreka-CA.html
I.O.O.F. Yreka Lodge #19 was instituted in 1853 and has been at this location since that date. Multiple transactions in ownership and lot size and shape occurred before two, one-story brick buildings were erected on this site. These buildings prov…
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