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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM121T_lowdens-wagon-road_Weaverville-CA.html
Built in 1858 by W.S. Lowden. This was the first wagon road to Weaverville from Lewiston. From Lowden's Ranch the roads forked. One went through Lewiston and up over Hoadley Peak on the Lewiston Turnpike, which was a toll road built by W.S. Lowden…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM121S_lee-family-ranch-house_Weaverville-CA.html
This house built in 1917 by family members on land purchased from Mrs. J. Putnam is located adjacent to the 32 acre Lorenz Ranch farmed by the Lee family since 1906. Acquired from the Lee family in 1989 by Trinity County.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM121P_race-track-airport-golf-course_Weaverville-CA.html
Once known as China Graveyard Ridge, by late August, 1871, Alex Love developed a racetrack on this site 550 yards in length. This popular quarter mile track saw the names of horses like "Hayfork Kitty" and "Hollywood" owned by John Van Matre. Mart…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM120H_joss-house_Weaverville-CA.html
This Joss HouseWas built in 1874 byChinese Minerswho came to the Trinity Countyin search of gold.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1209_anvil-firing_Weaverville-CA.html
This monument dedicated to the fond remembrance of Archie Arbuckle who from false Armistice Day 1918 until his death July 11th, 1970 fired the anvil each 4th of July.
Anvil firing has been a tradition with the Arbuckle family for 5 generations.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1208_jumper-sawmill_Lewiston-CA.html
In the 1880's George Jumper established a steam powered sawmill 300' east of this monument, above the confluence of Little Brown's Creek and China Gulch. An 80' long building housed the mill. Oxen teams of ten or more were used to pull long, four …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1207_old-section_Weaverville-CA.html
We honor the earliest interments of our pioneers whose wooden crosses, slabs and markers have been destroyed by the erosion of time. They were immigrants and adventurers who answered the call of gold. Some stayed to become packers, merchants, farm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11ZV_big-flat-big-bar_Junction-City-CA.html
This plaque is between the two sites first mined in '49. The rush came in 1850, when John Weaver & Co. ditched water from Lil' Weaver Creek, now Big Bar Creek taking out $100,000 in gold at Big Flat. Elizabeth Walton, mined here with her husband i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11ZU_site-of-ca-on-city_Junction-City-CA.html
Ca?on City was established in 1851 and in 1852 had a pop. of 800. The town had a blacksmith shop, two stores, two hotels, one temperance hall, one bakery, two billiard saloons, two express houses, two saw mills, post office, and a one-room school.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11ZO_dedrick_Junction-City-CA.html
A mining town was settled here on Corral Bar in 1890, and named after Chloride Mine locator Dan C. Dedrick. The post office was established May 4, 1891. By 1902 the town boasted a school, 2 stores, 2 hotels, a restaurant, lodging house, livery, as…