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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18U1_the-sixteen-to-one-mine_Alleghany-CA.html
California's Sixteen to One has been producing gold for over one hundreds years. More than one million troy ounces of gold have been mined from its tunnels. In 1853 the Knickerbocker Drift Mine was started, later led to the development of the Tigh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TZ_alleghany_Alleghany-CA.html
Alleghany, "The Treasure Town," was made up several mining camps; Smith's Flat, Kanaka Flat, Wet Ravine, Cumberland and Kanaka City. All were established within a few months period in 1851, with Smith's Flat being the first.
Among the first min…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TY_bovee-building_Alleghany-CA.html
Constructed in the late 1878s, by the early argonaut, J.F. Bovee, to house a clothing store and tavern. In 1928 David H. Casey, the 1918 Marine Corps Light Weight Boxing Champion, acquired the building. He ran a meat market with a "speak easy" in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18SJ_cornish-ranch-house_Alleghany-CA.html
Built by N.O. Cornish toserve traffic on the HennessPass Road "a large andcommodious house for theaccomodation (sic) of the public provided smithing andhay for teamsters(.") In 1868the transcontinental R.R.ended road traffic. Thebuilding was moved…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18SI_henness-pass-road_Alleghany-CA.html
The main emigrant trail leading from Virginia City to Marysville, California. Traveled by pioneers as early as 1849.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15JH_miners-hotel_Alleghany-CA.html
John G. Rose, Sr. built this hotel in 1886 and owned it until 1919. His son John then became proprietor until the middle of 1920s. The hotel was also known as the Capital Hotel and the Rose Hotel. Ernest Innes bought it and changed its name to the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM155E_the-st-charles-hotel_Alleghany-CA.html
The St. Charles was erected in 1852 as a hotel by Mr. Hermseir. It was purchased in 1860 by Christina and Jacob Fluke, and burned in 1864. In that year, it was rebuilt to included (sic) a bar and upstairs dance hall. In 1899, Paul and Gertrude Bac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM137V_sierra-county-sheriffs-gallows_Alleghany-CA.html
Sierra County Sheriff's GallowsOn November 27, 1885, 20 year-old James O'Neill was hanged from this gallows for the August 7, 1884 murder of Webber Lake dairyman John Woodward. That execution, conducted by Sheriff Samuel C. Stewart, approximately …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTQ5_downieville-cemetery_Alleghany-CA.html
Sometimes referred to as the "Masonic Graveyard", began in circa 1860. Interred here are the remains of many early Argonauts. Nature's storms and miner's greed exposed many graves in the prior cemetery, including that of Thaddeus Purdy, the first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTPE_downieville-foundry_Alleghany-CA.html
Built in 1855 by Soloman Purdy of timbers mortised and fastened with wooden pegs. The "coke" and pig iron used was shipped "Around the Horn" to San Francisco then by pack train to Downieville at a cost of $40.00 per ton. The foundry operated at fu…