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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1013_old-crimea-house_Jamestown-CA.html
Built in 1853 by James W. Kerrick. Having come over the emigrant trail, to Keystone District with nine covered wagons. This place originally housed a restaurant, bar rooms and stables. Located on the main road from San Joaquin and Bay Region into …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100Y_scraping-the-rocks-clean_Columbia-CA.html
Armed with pickaxes,shovels and powerful jets of water miners, removed massive amounts of dirt and gravel to expose the marble limestone formations you see here today. Deep open-pit mines once extended for miles east and south of Columbia.
As g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100W_inspiration-point_Columbia-CA.html
The inspiration to revive the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, a benevolent society prominent in Gold Rush days, occurred fifty years ago to Carl I. Wheat as he traveled from Columbia down to Parrots Ferry on the Stanislaus River. E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100V_columbia-marble-quarry_Columbia-CA.html
(On Marble Quarry Roadone mile from this site)Deposit discovered in1854 by John Grant.Produced the marble usedin Pacific Coast buildings.Still producing.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100U_a-cosmopolitan-society_Columbia-CA.html
Columbia was a boomtown.The discovery of gold in 1850 attracted thousands of miners here. As more people arrived, the demand for goods, services and entertainment soared.
In the gold rush, Columbia stores and other businesses thrived. The town …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100T_claverie-building_Columbia-CA.html
Shortly after the fire of August, 1857, this one-story brick structure was built by three Frenchmen; L. Claverie, Charles Meysan, and Victor Pinchard. After their partnership dissolved in 1861, Meysan owned the building until 1869. He sold it to S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100S_eagle-cotage_Columbia-CA.html
This wood frame building is a reproduction of a miners' boarding house that stood on this site and was destroyed in the fire of July 10, 1854. Rebuilt, it was destroyed again in the fire of August 25, 1857.A third building burned in 1861 and the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100R_site-of-donnell-parsons-building_Columbia-CA.html
The firm of Donnell & Parsons built Columbia's first brick building at this corner in April of 1853, a general store which carried a wide range of merchandise and provisions. The building survived a big fire in July, 1854 but was badly damaged by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100Q_wilson-mcconnell-house_Columbia-CA.html
James Wilson, a Norwegian immigrant shoemaker, purchased the property and brick building to the right in 1869. The brick building housed his shop; living quarters were in the rear. Wilson died in 1876, leaving his widow, Rose, and 8 children. This…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM100P_water-precious-as-gold_Columbia-CA.html
Every aspect of Columbia'sdevelopment depended on water. Without it, mining could not continue and the town could have died. In the early days of Columbia, fights broke out because of the short supply of water. To resolve the problem (and make mon…