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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7QK_first-methodist-church-site_Middletown-CA.html
Building MovedTo the Farmer Place - 1894Destroyed by Storm - 1948Marker Relocated - 1960
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7QG_maidens-grave_Pioneer-CA.html
Broken dreams and hope, carried 2000 miles through scorching deserts and over loft mountains. At last...the sight of the promise land. Those of you who visit this grave carry a torch of love and hope (which this young girl lost), and pass it on, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Q9_sandy-gulch_West-Point-CA.html
This site, in 1849, was a trading center for pioneer miners of Northwestern Calaveras County. It was named after the gulch where William and Dan Carsner found large nuggets imbedded in the course sand.
Water for mining was brought from the Midd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Q5_fourth-crossing_San-Andreas-CA.html
Located on the Stockton-Murphy Road at the fourth crossing of the Calaveras River, this early mining settlement, once called Foremans, was famous in the 1850's for its rich placer ores. Later, it became an important stage and freighting depot and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Q4_dinkelspiel-store_Vallecito-CA.html
The store was built in 1851 and opened for business in 1852 by the Dinkelspiel family, who had recently emigrated from Germany. The buildings were made of rhyolite tuff blocks from the Altaville Quarry. The small adjoining building originally used…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Q0_markleeville-general-store_Markleeville-CA.html
On August 2, 1885, fire broke out in the Town of Markleeville destroying several buildings, including Harvey and Rask's Bucher Shop and Smokehouse. Later on in the Fall, the building was rebuilt and reopened as Rask's Butcher Shop.The building tod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PY_serra-palm_San-Diego-CA.html
Traditionally the earliest planted tree in California. Directly in the rear, beneath the brow of the hill, lie the dead of the sacred expedition of 1769. Burial place of our first unknown soldiers.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PX_el-camino-real_San-Diego-CA.html
This plaque is placed on the 250th anniversary of the birth of California's Apostle Padre Junipero Serra O.F.M., to mark the Southern terminus of El Camino Real as Padre Serra knew it and helped to blaze it.
1713 - November 24 - 1963California …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PE_caliente_Gettysburg-CA.html
Originally known as Allen's Camp after Gabriel Allen, who in the 1870s had a cabin and stock pasture near here, the settlement was named Caliente when railroad construction reached this point in April 1875. The town became a railroad terminal for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PC_francisco-garces-o-f-m_Arvin-CA.html
Padre Garc, first recorded non-Indian to visit this locality, came in April of 1776, seeking a new route from Mexico to California. His epic journey covered more than two thousand miles of uncharted wilderness, opening trails that later became hig…