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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVQ_site-of-santa-cruz-mission_Santa-Cruz-CA.html
Misi?n La Exaltaci?n de la Santa Cruz, the 12th Franciscan mission, was consecrated by Father Ferm?n Lasuen in August 1791. In 1793 the adobe church was built where the Holy Cross Catholic Church is now located. The mission was damaged by several …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVM_cherokee_Oroville-CA.html
Led from Indian Territory by their New England schoolmaster, a band of young Cherokee Argonauts discovered gold here 1850. Town established 1853 when first stores erected by Welsh miners. During heyday of 1875, Cherokee boasted its own theatre, ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP_mark-twain-bret-harte-trail_Jamestown-CA.html
Known as gateway of Mother Lode and to southern mines, gold first discovered in Tuolumne County west of this point at Woods Creek by James Woods shortly before town was founded by Col. George James, August 8, 1848. Large quantities of gold recover…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRZ_historic-knight-wheel_Mammoth-Lakes-CA.html
Originally hauled by mule teams from Mojave to Mill City in 1878 this Knight Wheel powered Mammoth Mining Company's 20 stamp mill for processing gold ore until 1895, when it was relocated to Mammoth City.
This high pressure, low volume wheel w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOI_preston-castle_Ione-CA.html
The "Castle," Built in 1890-1894, is the most significant example of Romanesque Revival architecture in the Mother Lode. It was built to house the Preston School of Industry. Established by the State Legislature as a progressive action toward reha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO8_gold-mining-and-michigan-bar_Rancho-Murieta-CA.html
(left panel) Michigan Bar Gold was discovered on the Cosumnes River in 1849 by two men from Michigan in the vicinity of the historic Nisenan settlement of Palamul. In the 1850s the town of Michigan Bar was the largest in Cosumnes Township, with as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO7_sheldon-grist-mill_Sloughhouse-CA.html
Site of Grist Mill built by Jared Dixon (Joaquin) Sheldon 1846-47 on Omochumnes Rancho, granted to him by Mexican Government 1843. Sheldon born Vermont January 8, 1813, came to California 1832. Sheldon shot July 11, 1851, by miners in quarrel over…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO6_fifteen-mile-house_Rancho-Cordova-CA.html
Owned and operated from 1857 as a stage station by Henry F. W. Deterding. This was the site of the second remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express during March-July 1860. Here on April 4, 1860, Sam (Bill) Hamilton with the first eastwa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO5_american-river-grange-172_Rancho-Cordova-CA.html
Organized March 1874 Dedicated October 1882 Presented by Native Daughters of the Golden West San Juan Parol #315 Rededicated 5-15-98
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLR_hetch-hetchy-railroad_Groveland-CA.html
Masterminding the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Project was the brilliant chief engineer Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy. One of his first priorities was to build a reliable and high-capacity standard gauge railway that could traverse the rugged terr…