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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B7_john-snowshoe-thompson_South-Lake-Tahoe-CA.html
Send me men to match my mountains. These are words a great poet said speaking for the brave young nation that needed strong and brave men's aid.
In memory ofJohn (Snowshoe) Thompsonwho, for twenty successive winters, 1856-1876, carried the mail…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AY_yanks-station_South-Lake-Tahoe-CA.html
This was the site of the most eastern remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express in California. Established as a trading post in 1851 by Martin Smith, it became a popular hostelry and stage-stop operated by Ephraim "Yank" Clement on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AW_site-of-first-african-methodist-episcopal-church-on-the-pacific-coast_Sacramento-CA.html
This is the site of the first church building associated with an African American religious congregation on the Pacific Coast. The church was the Methodist Church of Colored People of Sacramento City, formally organized in 1850. In 1851 the congre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23L_mission-san-lus-rey-de-francia_Oceanside-CA.html
Founded June 12, 1798 by Father Lasuen, then president of the California missions, and administered by Father Peyri. Notable for its impressive architecture—a composite of Spanish, Moorish, and Mexican.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23A_la-cristianita_San-Clemente-CA.html
Two miles inland from this point, in Los Cristianitos Valley, the first Christian baptism in Alta California was performed by Padre Francisco Gómez, a member of the Portolá Expedition, in 1769.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM208_murphys_Murphys-CA.html
One of the principal mining communities in Calaveras County, named for the discoverer of gold on the flat in 1849. The objective of many immigrants coming over the Sierras by Ebbetts Pass, Murphys Flat and surrounding mines produced 20,000,000 dol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YP_bear-gulch_Rancho-Cucamonga-CA.html
In memory of the California Pioneers. Bear Gulch, the home of oso. In 1779,Father Font camped hereon his way to Monterey.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YF_cucamonga-winery_Rancho-Cucamonga-CA.html
Established by Tiburcio Tapia, to whom the Cucamonga Rancho was granted March 3, 1839 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado of Mexico.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XO_site-of-the-battle-of-chino_Chino-CA.html
Near this spot once stood the home of Isaac Williams, first American settler in this valley, about which on September 26-27 1846, was fought the first important engagement in California of the war with Mexico.
This was also the site of the Chin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XC_luis-mar-a-peralta-adobe_San-Jose-CA.html
The last vestige of El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, the simple adobe, rehabilitated in the mid-19th century, is believed built before 1800 by Manuel Gonzalez, an Apache, who was one of the pobladores (founders). Later owned and occupied by Sgt…