(The monument has inscriptions on three sides. These are presented here right-center-left.)
Right side: Upper tablet
Das Kgl. bay. 1. Ulanen-Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm II. König v. Preussen zog am 3. August 1914 von hier zur Verteidigung des V…
The piles of boulders you see before you were made around 1850.
The miners used both windlass and water powered derricks to lift and pile these rocks in their search for placer gold in the underlying sands.
Water power for the derricks was dev…