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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7GE_el-dorado-mud-springs_El-Dorado-CA.html
Trading post, emigrant stop, and mining camp of the 1850's. This became one of the remount stations of the Central Overland Pony Express. Here at the Nevada House on April 13, 1860, pony rider William (Sam) Hamilton changed horses while carrying the first w…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7H8_carnegie-city-library_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Built on the site formerly occupied by Dona Ramona Carrillo Pacheco de Wilson's two story town house, this building was for 55 years the city library. One of over 1,681 libraries given by Andrew Carnegie to American towns in the early 1900's, it was built i…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7IH_adobe-chapel-of-the-immaculate-conception_San-Diego-CA.html
Originally built as the home of San Diego's John Brown in 1850, the house was converted to a church by Don Jose Aguirre in 1858. Father Antonio D. Ubach , formally a missionary among the Indians, was parish priest here from 1866 to 1907. It is said that he …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7J1_el-campo-santo-the-holy-field_San-Diego-CA.html
El Campo Santo once included The Adobe Chapel on Conde Street, in which is buried Jose Antonio Aguirre and where funeral services were held for Maria Victoria Dominguez Estrillo, Cave Johnson Couts, and many distinguished early San Diegans, between 1849 and…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7JB_attempted-stage-robbery_San-Andreas-CA.html
At this place, April 30th 1892, without warning, a lone bandit fired two charges of buckshot into the stage carrying the payroll for the Sheepranch Mine. Miss Johanna Rodesino, a passenger, was instantly killed. Babe Raggio, driver, was severely wounded. Mi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7LO_fort-stockton_San-Diego-CA.html
Fortified briefly by Carlos Carrillo in 1838. This site became Fort Dupont (July -November 1846) after American forces took Old Town during the Mexican War. Retaken and held briefly by the Californios, it fell once more to the Americans, who renamed it Fort…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7OW_the-great-flood-of-1932-and-engine-no-3834_Keene-CA.html
On September 30th torrential rains flooded Tehachapi Creek, undermining the tracks under Santa Fe Engine No. 3834 which was waiting out the storm about ½ mile east of Woodward Station. The engine disappeared into the raging water below. It remained "lo…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7P0_mountain-warfare-training-center_Coleville-CA.html
Was established in 1951, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service. One of the Corps most remote and isolated posts. The mission was providing cold weather training for Korea bound replacement personnel. The name changed to "Marine Corp Cold Weather Train…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7PY_serra-palm_San-Diego-CA.html
Traditionally the earliest planted tree in California. Directly in the rear, beneath the brow of the hill, lie the dead of the sacred expedition of 1769. Burial place of our first unknown soldiers.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7Q0_markleeville-general-store_Markleeville-CA.html
On August 2, 1885, fire broke out in the Town of Markleeville destroying several buildings, including Harvey and Rask's Bucher Shop and Smokehouse. Later on in the Fall, the building was rebuilt and reopened as Rask's Butcher Shop.The building today, contai…