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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TT1_moving-mountains-historical_Junction-City-CA.html
Searching for Gold Imagine a pile of dirt as big as 6 football fields and two miles high. That pile of dirt use to be where you are now standing. It is called Oregon Mountain. Hydraulic mining dissolved 90% of this mound in the quest for go…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T1P_spanish-corral-historical_Weaverville-CA.html
On this lot stood the Spanish Corral, a dance hall house of ill repute for over a decade during the Gold Rush. Two legislative acts of 1855, banned gambling and prostitution. Every fourth business in town was a saloon with ladies of the night, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BZU_kellogg-cemetery_Hayfork-CA.html
Established in early 1860'sBy L.I. Kellogg
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BZT_salt-creek-school_Hayfork-CA.html
The first school opened in 1896 as a community school in Morgan Frances' log cabin. The teacher was Miss Fanny Doyle. The new school was built in 1897 operating with one of the first special use permits from Trinity National Forest. The school flo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BZS_steel-bridge_Douglas-City-CA.html
The Union Hill Mines, which began in 1862, were located up the western slope of Union Hill from the mouth of Weaver Creek, at the head of Union Gulch. It was one of the largest placer mines in Trinity County. Water was ditched from Weaver Creek an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BZQ_e-clampus-vitus-1855-1962_Weaverville-CA.html
The first chapter of ECV in Weaverville began in 1855. After a rocky start in the Sierra Nevada Gold County, the organization got a foothold in Mokelumne Hill, in 1851. The first Noble Grand Humbug for the Weaverville Chapter was John C. Burch, a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13BI_turning-water-into-gold_Trinity-Center-CA.html
The Rising Tide of History in the Trinity Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation AreaBy 1956 the Gold Rush was only an echo along the river now covered by Trinity and Lewiston Lakes. The abandoned remnants of fevered mining act…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13BG_site-of-first-cabin_Weaverville-CA.html
On this site was builtthe fist cabin andWeaverville namedJuly, 8 1850
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM139R_california-oregon-trail-california-oregon-road_Cusseta-CA.html
About 60 feet above this marker a line of rocks marks the old Trappers and Emigrants Trail from Trinity River to Scott Valley. This route may have been used as early as 1829 by Hudson's Bay trappers and others prior to the building of this road in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM123F_the-bowerman-barn_Trinity-Center-CA.html
This barn was built by the Bowerman family in 1878 as part of their ranch operation. Much of the barn was handcrafted and it serves as a fine example of the skills of that time. The Bowerman's are an early pioneer family in Trinity County. Jaco…
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