This route, following an earlier emigrant trail, was laid out in the 1850’s as part of the Stockton-Los Angeles Road. It was used by the Butterfield Overland Mail stages between St. Louis and San Francisco from 1858 to 1861. This was the first . . . — — Map (db m143279) HM
In 1894 John Jolly (J.J.) Cairns planted rows of olive trees as a windbreak on the north side of his newly planted orange orchard. His daughters Laura and Ethel, stated that Cairns truly loved the beauty of the trees. He planted three rows on the . . . — — Map (db m155668) HM
This tablet marks the trail taken by Gen. John Charles Fremont on his famous march over the Rocky Mountains through California. — — Map (db m168346) HM
