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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWZ_gubserville_San-Jose-CA.html
Named after Frank Gubser, a German immigrant and barber, Gubserville was an important stage, mail and teamster stop on the road between San Jose and Saratoga. Gubser served as the village's first and only postmaster, beginning July 5, 1882. Gubserville ceas…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11V_mission-santa-clara_Santa-Clara-CA.html
Santa Clara, the first california mission to honor a woman, Clare of Assisi, as its patron saint, was founded nearby on the Guadalupe River on January 12, 1777. It once had the largest Indian population of any California mission. Floods and earthquake led t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM15H_development-of-motion-pictures_Stanford-CA.html
In commemoration of the motion picture research conducted in 1878 and 1879 by Eadweard Muybridge, at the Palo Alto Stock Farm, now the site of Stanford University. This extensive photographic experiment portraying the attitudes of animals in motion was conc…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1BY_casa-diablo_Mammoth-Lakes-CA.html
A distinctive landmark and gathering place used by many early inhabitants of the area for bathing, food preparation, ceremonial and medicinal purposes. It was named "House of the Devil", by early explorers, for it's boiling hot springs, plumes of rising ste…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1BZ_mcgee-mountain-rope-tow-34_Mammoth-Lakes-CA.html
The first permanent rope tow in the Eastern Sierra was built west of this site on the east slope of McGee Mountain. This predecessor of Mammoth Mountain ski area was constructed here in 1938 because of its dependable snow and nearness to a highway. Prior to…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1C0_pine-creek-mine_Bishop-CA.html
West of this spot, gold was discovered in the Pine Creek drainage by Civil War veterans. It was not until April, 1916, when tungsten was discovered by four men: O.E. Vaughn, A.E. & C.C. Beauregard, and James Sproul on their claims, Blizzard 1, 2, 3 and 4, h…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1C1_owensville_Bishop-CA.html
The first white man's settlement in northern Owens Valley was built here in 1861 and two years later prospectors named it Owensville. It thrived for some time but in 1864, as mining in the White Mts. petered out the miners moved on to better diggings, leavi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1C2_camp-independence_Independence-CA.html
At the request of settlers, Colonel George Evans led a military expedition to this site on July 4, 1862. Hence its name "Independence". Indian hostilities ceased and the camp closed. War again broke out in 1865 and the camp was reoccupied as Fort Independen…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1CO_millwood_Miramonte-CA.html
Two miles northwest of here astride Mill Flat Creek is the site of old Millwood. A sawmill town established in 1891. Railroads brought logs here for milling and later lumber from other nearby mills including that which cut the privately owned redwoods in Co…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1DH_old-webster-school_Markleeville-CA.html
Built by the citizens of Markleeville in 1882 it remained in operation until 1929 when the new Webster School was completed. In 1966, with the old school on the verge of total destruction, the Historical Society of Alpine County began to raise funds for the…