Built in the late 1930s as "Red Rooster," later "Les Pyrenees Restaurant." Museum dedicated to those who lived, passed through and passed on here.
Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark program as a site worth seeing — — Map (db m193155) HM
"Came to the Sink of St Marys a dreary road, dessolate
as a frozen lake" - William Chamberlain, Aug 4, 1849
M.E.O. 1996
Guidebook available
Trails West Inc. P. O. Box 12035 Reno, Nevada 89510
Emigrant Trail-Humboldt River Route . . . — — Map (db m264103) HM
"California is one of the richest repositories of Native American rock art in North America.
Rock art - is an inclusive term for symbols created on natural rock surface.
pictograph - painted rock art.
petroglyph - . . . — — Map (db m205837) HM
These landmarks form the historic core of the first University of California campus, opened in 1873: Founders’ Rock, University House, Faculty Club and Glade, Hearst Greek Theatre, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Doe Library, Sather Tower and . . . — — Map (db m290973) HM
“Ukraina” is the site of the farm and burial place of the Ukrainian patriot and exiled orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko (1832-1916) and his wife Albina. Honcharenko was the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to arrive in the United States. He . . . — — Map (db m146447) HM
In 1888, the State Board of Forestry established an experimental forestry station and nursery, a companion to the Santa Monica Station established in 1887. The two were the first such stations in the nation. Exotic and native trees were tested and . . . — — Map (db m100602) HM
On April 6, 1862, a battle took place around this site between newly arrived citizens of the Owens River Valley and the Paiute and Shoshone Indians, original inhabitants of the land. The reason for this battle is lost in obscurity, but brave men . . . — — Map (db m628) HM
One hundred thirty feet west of this site, Charles Putnam built the first cabin of permanent habitation in what is now Inyo County in August 1861. The building served as a home, trading post, hospital, and “fort” for early settlers, as well as a . . . — — Map (db m2957) HM
The Owens Lake Silver-Lead Furnace and Mill was built here by Col. Sherman Stevens in 1869 and used until March 1874. James Brady assumed its operation in 1870 for the Silver-Lead Company and built the town of Swansea. During the next few years the . . . — — Map (db m72576) HM
Elisha Stephens was born in South Carolina in 1804 and moved to Georgia with his family at a young age.
However, he was to spend most of the first half of his life in the frontier lands bordering the Missouri River. Like many other Americans of his . . . — — Map (db m55187) HM
Southern California's first newspaper, The Los Angeles Star, was founded in this block on May 17, 1851 and for many years exerted a major influence upon this part of the state. Suspended temporarily from 1864 to 1868, it continued later as an . . . — — Map (db m125413) HM
In 1887, the State Board of Forestry established the nation's first experimental forestry station. Located in Rustic Canyon, the station tested exotic trees for planting in California, established plantations for management studies, and produced . . . — — Map (db m119875) HM
The varied habitats of Guashna, which includes the Ballona Wetlands, nurtures the Gabrielino-Tongva people
of the past, present, and future. Discover how this biodiversity contributes to their rich culture and survival.
Ti'at (Plank . . . — — Map (db m216623) HM
These venerable oak trees were topped by the Franciscan friars to furnish fuel for the nearby lime kilns that provided mortar for the building of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana. These fused rocks were taken for their preservation, from the . . . — — Map (db m144163) HM
Established at Wilmington in 1862, Drum Barracks became the United States military headquarters for Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. A garrison and base for supplies, it was a terminus for camel pack trains operated by the army until . . . — — Map (db m85152) HM
This was the site of ‘Los Robles’, the 400 acre estate of Governor George Stoneman. Here in 1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes was entertained. The first schoolhouse in the San Gabriel Valley, California's first tennis club, and the first municipal . . . — — Map (db m127644) HM
On June 30, 1864 the United States granted the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove to the State of California to "be held for public use, resort and recreation...inalienable for all time." This act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, . . . — — Map (db m81941) HM
Founded in 1861 by Charles Krug (1825 – 1892). This is the oldest operating winery in Napa Valley. The pioneer wine maker of this world famous wine region, Krug made the first commercial wine in Napa County in 1858, at Napa. — — Map (db m18693) HM
Built in 1862 by David J. Wood with lumber from his mill in Sierra County, the covered bridge was part of the Virginia Turnpike Company toll road that served the northern mines and the Nevada Comstock Lode. The associated ranch and resources for . . . — — Map (db m78339) HM
Through its progeny, this tree, planted in 1926 by Rudolph Hass, has played an important role in the development of the California avocado industry. — — Map (db m117267) HM
One thousand competitors from 34 nations came to Squaw Valley to compete in the VIII Olympic Winter Games of 1960. The Games, brought here by Alexander C. Cushing, commemorated a century of sport skiing in America. By 1860 mining towns in the Sierra . . . — — Map (db m23504) HM
The first sport ski area in the western hemisphere was in the Sierra Nevada. By 1860, races were held in the Plumas-Sierra region. The mining towns of Whiskey Diggings, Poker Flat, Port Wine, Onion Valley, La Porte, Jamison City, and Johnsville . . . — — Map (db m143423) HM
The historic Capitol was designed by architects M.F. Butler and Reuben Clark. Its style is an adaption of Roman Corinthian architecture. Work began in 1860 and by late 1869 the Capitol was partly occupied. In 1874, construction ended at a cost of . . . — — Map (db m154357) HM
At this location on January 8, 1863, Governor Stanford surrounded by politicians and locals, announced the start of the United States’ first transcontinental railroad. You are standing at Mile Marker 0, the origin of the Central Pacific Railroad . . . — — Map (db m149177) HM
You are standing where the First Transcontinental Railroad in America had its western origin, at Front and K Streets in Sacramento.
On January 8, 1863, prominent citizens and railroad founders gathered here for a groundbreaking ceremony to . . . — — Map (db m201267) HM
This pass, Puerta, between the desert and the cooler valleys to the north, was used by the Mormon Battalion, Kearny's Army of the West, the Butterfield Overland Mail Stages, and emigrants who eventually settled the west. The eroded scar on the left . . . — — Map (db m145313) HM
Here, from 1881-1906, stood the library of Hubert Howe Bancroft, who in 1860 began to collect the wealth of material which was to subsequently result in the writing of his monumental history of western North America. In 1905, the library was . . . — — Map (db m162984) HM
Apostle of liberty, humanitarian, Unitarian minister, who in the Civil War bound California to the Union and led her to excel all other states in support of the United States Sanitary Commission, predecessor to the American Red Cross. His statue, . . . — — Map (db m91855) HM
The third Jenny Lind Theatre was opened by Tom Maquire on October 4, 1851 on the same site as the two preceding it, which were destroyed in the fires of 1851. In 1852 the City of San Francisco purchased this theatre for use as the City Hall. — — Map (db m143439) HM
This is the site of the famous What Cheer House, a unique hotel opened in 1852 by R. B. Woodward and destroyed by the fire of 1906. The What Cheer House catered to men only, permitted no liquor on the premises, and housed San Francisco's first free . . . — — Map (db m33319) HM
This, San Francisco’s first fireproof building erected in 1853 by Henry Wager Helleck, was the headquarters for many outstanding lawyers, financiers, writers, actors and artists. James King of William, editor of the Bulletin, died here . . . — — Map (db m143443) HM
Woodward's Gardens occupied the block bounded
by Mission, Duboce, Valencia and 14th Streets,
with the main entrance on Mission Street.
R.B. Woodward opened his gardens to the public
in 1866, as an amusement park catering to all
tastes. It was . . . — — Map (db m162992) HM
In a second floor room in a store which stood on this location, forty pioneers of Jewish faith gathered on Yom Kippur (5610) September 26, 1849, and participated in the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco.
State Registered Landmark . . . — — Map (db m40514) HM
William Tecumseh Sherman established the branch bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. in San Francisco in 1853. He settled the firm in their own building on the northeast corner of Jackson and Montgomery Streets in the spring of 1854. Sherman successfully . . . — — Map (db m33402) HM
In August 1863, Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P. opened St. Mary's College at this location with a faculty of two diocesan priests, four laymen, and two student teachers in August 1868. At the invitation of Archbishop, Brother Justin McMahon . . . — — Map (db m115443) HM
Here on November 29, 1858, was held the celebration in honor of the completion of the Columbia and Stanislaus River Water Company's ditch, which brought water from the north fork of the Stanislaus River to Columbia. James Wood Coffroth, attorney, . . . — — Map (db m25649) HM
Overview of History
California Nursery Historical Park is 20 acres of prime agricultural land. People who inhabited the area included the Muwekma Ohlone, Spanish (Mission San Jose), Mexicans (Rancho Arroyo de la Alameda), and “Californios.” . . . — — Map (db m208723) HM
Located one-eighth mile west of here is an
ancient asphaltum seepage in which hundreds
of Pleistocene Age (15,000-50,000 years ago)
birds, insects, and animals were trapped.
The skeletal remains found in the pit include
giant condors, giant . . . — — Map (db m168958) HM
In 1881, after the Southern Pacific took over the Santa Clara Coal Mine northeast of here, a bustling mining camp complete with hotel, saloons, shacks, store, and post office sprang up on these flats. Three years later the mine played out and . . . — — Map (db m154585) HM
On this site in 1852 Charles LeFranc made the first commercial planting of fine European wine grapes in Santa Clara County and founded Almadén Vineyards. LeFranc imported cuttings from vines in the celebrated wine districts of his native France, . . . — — Map (db m2580) HM
The Palos Verdes Peninsula supports a plant community called coastal bluff scrub that contains elements of coastal sage scrub. Coastal sage scrub communities are composed of soft, witty sub-shrubs. Coastal sage scrub seen at this site is dominated . . . — — Map (db m81923)
Constructed in 1827 by the Mexican government to collect custom duties from foreign shipping, a principal revenue source when Monterey was the capital of Alta California, Mexico's northernmost province. Thomas O. Larkin, US consul to Alta . . . — — Map (db m82186) HM
In 1834, Mariano G. Vallejo's brother-in-law, John B.R. Cooper, constructed California's first known power-operated commercial sawmill. In addition to sawing redwood lumber, the mill and settlement served as a barrier to Russian encroachment from . . . — — Map (db m102484) HM
A surprising amount of California's history has taken place in these few blocks of Sonoma. In the early 1820s, Father Altimira, a Franciscan Missionary, commenced the building of the 21st California mission, utilizing Native American labor. General . . . — — Map (db m231021) HM
The Castro/Breen adobe is associated with the early development and settlement of Mexican California. The adobe is an excellent example of blended eastern and western building methods first produced in Monterey to form the Monterey Colonial . . . — — Map (db m82243) HM
Presentada por La Sociedad Aguacatera De California
en el 1946
En reconocimiento y aprecio por la gran contribución
de Antigua y toda Guatemala por el desarrollo de la
industria de aguacates en California.
Un jóven saludable, . . . — — Map (db m71194) HM
California condors are the largest flying birds in North America. Their wingspans of nearly 10 feet (3.5 m) make condors easy to spot gliding above Grand Canyon today. Yet, in the 1920s, these birds disappeared from Grand Canyon skies. Condors were . . . — — Map (db m250417) HM
Lieut. James Barrett – Co. A.
Private George Johnson – Co. A.
Private William S. Leonard - Co. D
1st California Cavalry Volunteers
killed April 15, 1862 at Picacho Pass.
In only battle of the Civil War
fought in Arizona . . . — — Map (db m73897) HM WM
The emigrant train of Forty-Niners, 5,000 strong, set out from Fort Smith in April, 1849, with an escort of United States [Army] Regulars under the command of Captain R. B. Marcy. — — Map (db m92353) HM
A 3 foot narrow gauge railroad starting on land owned by Joseph E. Emery, later president and founder of the City of Emeryville.
The line started at 40th and San Pablo, extended through Berkeley and up San Pablo Creek to Bryant (Orinda) 23 . . . — — Map (db m72398) HM
The primary purpose of the California Nursery Historical Park Master Plan is to tell the story of the California Nursery Company to current and future generations through the sharing of the site’s remaining historic buildings, majestic . . . — — Map (db m208557) HM
University of California, chartered March 23, 1868. Located between Franklin and Harrison, 12th and 14th Streets, from 1869 to 1873, using buildings of former College of California, successor to Contra Costa Academy founded by Henry Durant, June . . . — — Map (db m100544) HM
The California Cotton Mill was one of Oakland’s earliest and largest industries.
Jingletown was named for the mill workers’ habit of jingling coins in their pockets on payday.
At its height, the mill had 600 to 700 employees and 20 to 30 . . . — — Map (db m71211) HM
Designer: H.C. Baumann
Construction Date: 1929
Architectural Style: Early 20th century utilitarian with Art Deco elements
1926 was a profitable year for the Poultry Producers. Pooled resources created “orderly marketing” to . . . — — Map (db m228121) HM
The Foothill Station became the first University of California qualifying outlying station funded jointly by federal, state and local county sources in March 1888. The station was developed under the patronage of Senator A. Caminetti of Jackson. . . . — — Map (db m72065) HM
To Commemorate completion of 4th Railroad in California – Marysville to Oroville, by California Northern Railroad, later the Southern Pacific Co. 1st passenger train February 9 – 1864. Also marks site of Middletown 1854 – 1856. — — Map (db m190381) HM
Imported from Mazatlan, Mexico, the Mother Orange Tree was purchased on the streets of Sacramento when it was only a 2 to 3 year-old seedling in a tub. She was planted in 1856 and quickly grew into a California legend. The leafy greens of her robust . . . — — Map (db m62787) HM
In the spring of 1852, Augustus T. Dowd, while hunting, discovered a grove of truly immense trees, now known as the Calaveras North Grove. Several stockholders of the Union Water Company (who employed Augustus as a hunter) developed a plan to . . . — — Map (db m34120) HM
[Left Column]
Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun
Elva Lucy Drennan
Mr. Hussky
[Right Column]
John Laplasse
Christian Kientz
Henry Christian Kientz
---Were known to have been buried at Poverty Bar Cemetery now covered by . . . — — Map (db m13020) HM
Here, following the base of San Pablo Ridge, ran the tracks of the California & Nevada Railroad. Incorporated in 1881, its founders had grand plans to run from Emeryville to Nevada. The line never got farther than Orinda. Until ending service in . . . — — Map (db m94300) HM
These eucalyptus trees mark the route of the narrow gauge California and Nevada railroad chartered in 1884 to connect California to the Nevada mines.
Only 23 miles of track were completed by 1891 from Emeryville to Bryant now Orinda. In addition . . . — — Map (db m133653) HM
In 1919, Colonel Robert Bradford Marshall
of the United States Geological Survey
proposed an unprecedented project
of dams, canals, and pumps to
move Delta-bound water from
California's wet north and snowy
Sierra Nevada mountains to its
arid . . . — — Map (db m190979) HM
Since opening its doors on May 4, 1920, this theatre has been a cornerstone to the New York Landing Historic District in Old Town Pittsburg. Like many Bay Area theaters of the 1920's, the California Theatre was designed by A.W. Cornelius in a . . . — — Map (db m146532) HM
Oldest church building
in Walnut Creek Originally
located on Locust Street
Erected 1888 -1889
Consecrated, April 26, 1891
by
Bishop William Ford Nichols — — Map (db m93978) HM
Soon after miners discovered gold in underground quartz veins, mills were brought in to process ore. Dating back to at least the 1500’s, the mills used heavy iron pounders called stamps to crush the rock. Each mill had a series of stamps equipped . . . — — Map (db m215022) HM
If you had stood on this spot in 1769, 1823, and 1848, you would have been in three different countries! Each time California switched hands, life changed for its people.
Spanish Province
“California” was a Spanish province in 1769. For the . . . — — Map (db m214606) HM
Original Marker - Missing
First Replacement Marker - See Photo #2
Pilot Hill Grange No.1, of 29 charter members: Master, F. D. Brown; Secretary, A. J. Bayley; was organized August 10, 1870. The Grange Hall, dedicated at this site . . . — — Map (db m11607) HM
The California gold rush followed Captain John Sutter’s logging effort in the Coloma valley. On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found gold in the tail-race at Sutter’s Mill. This discovery incited the greatest migration of mankind in history to . . . — — Map (db m94635) HM
In Memory of the victims of September 11, 2001 and in honor of our fallen heroes
America's bravest - New York City Firefighters
Port Authority of NY and NY Police Officers
America's Finest - New York City Police Officers
The Passengers . . . — — Map (db m114526) WM
This site, originally R.A. Simpson's Ferndale Mechanical Shop, and shared by A. Monroe Cider and Vinegar Company, was chosen in 1904 by Aage Jensen as the founding location of the Central Creamery with first production of butter in September, . . . — — Map (db m65235) HM
California's first drilled oil wells producing crude to be refined and sold commercially were located on the north fork of the Mattole River approximately three miles east of here. The old Union Mattole Oil Company made its first shipment of oil . . . — — Map (db m51955) HM
A 1533 expedition sent by Hernan Cortes discovered Baja California,
leading to the name "California" and the belief that it was the famed
Island of California which then appeared on maps of the era.
Exploration and Cartography
. . . — — Map (db m165827) HM
Dedicated to all American war veterans
who have made the supreme sacrifice.
American Legion Post No. 476,
California City, California - 1979.
"Lest we forget" — — Map (db m243245) WM
Gold was discovered on the slope of Rand Mountain in 1895. From this discovery, the town of Randsburg sprang up almost overnight. By 1899, the town had over 3500 residents. Randsburg boasted a 100-stamp mill and conservative estimates are that . . . — — Map (db m78578) HM
“In Camponit Peter Lassen and his party had been waiting for the winter to be over. Instead of crossing the mountain ranges on their way south, he and six other persons decided to go by ship from Fort Vancouver. A small steamship, . . . — — Map (db m31740) HM
In the 1940s Jane S. Pinheiro, a local resident and self-taught wildflower artist, became concerned that rapid growth in the Antelope Valley was
endangering wildflower fields. Jane's dream was to have a "Poppy Park" to protect the official . . . — — Map (db m189239) HM
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding in the Plaza area of the first gas service in Southern California June 28, 1867. — — Map (db m162929) HM
The Founders of the City of Los Angeles Lara · Mesa · Moreno · Rosas · Camero · Rosas · Navarro · Villavicencio · Rodriguez · Quintero · Vanegas
In 1542, Captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo “discovered” California while . . . — — Map (db m162879) HM
This plaque and garden are dedicated to the memory of the first peoples who lived in what is now the County of Los Angeles. Some of the earliest Indians were members of the Uto Aztecan linguistic family or were descended from the Shoshone Tribe. . . . — — Map (db m54552) HM
Command Post For Southern California's Car Culture
The headquarters of the Automobile Club of Southern California has sometimes been mistaken for the ornate Roman Catholic St. Vincent de Paul church. The two, along with the imposing . . . — — Map (db m208552) HM
Black Americans In The Golden State
Africans have had a presence and stake in California since before there was a California. Some 300 Africans accompanied the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes to the New World in 1519. And more than two . . . — — Map (db m216966) HM
From Owl to Eagle
Starting in 1827, African American-owned
newspapers began popping up throughout the
United States, giving a voice to people who had
been largely voiceless. From the late 1800s until
1964, the California
Eagle . . . — — Map (db m229278) HM
In 1914, Joseph and Charlotta Bass purchased the
newspaper, The Owl, and renamed it the California
Eagle. The California Eagle's readership was primarily
African-American. It was a crusader for civil rights
and civil liberties under all of . . . — — Map (db m294434) HM
From Inner Spaces To Outer Space
The nation was celebrating
the tenth anniversary of the
Wright Brothers' powered
flight when the State Exposition Building first opened
in Exposition Park in 1913 — a place that
would become an . . . — — Map (db m233940) HM
When USC was founded in 1880, there were few avenues open to ambitious young Angelenos, who sought training in the different professions. Aspiring physicians were forced to leave the region to attend medical school in other cities, and future . . . — — Map (db m234144) HM
Dedicated on September 4, 1880, this original building of the University of Southern California has been continuously in use for educational purposes since its doors were first opened to students on October 6, 1880, by the university's first . . . — — Map (db m126924) HM
The First Trojan—Before There Was A University Amid the ivy-covered brick buildings and towering palm trees of the University of Southern California, there survives a two-story white clapboard
building, a relic and a link not only to the . . . — — Map (db m128578) HM
Trojan Cardinal And Olympic Gold
Among the scholars who have passed
through the University of Southern California have been thousands of star athletes:
All-American football players, Hall of Fame
standouts, a future Oscar winning . . . — — Map (db m238532) HM
The 72 foot mural depicts life in early California with scenes of Native Americans, Francisan Padres and Senoritas. It was painted over a period of three months. Images projected against the wall at night provided the basic outline necessary to . . . — — Map (db m67295) HM
This building, built in 1951, was purchased by Ramona Parlor No.109
Native Sons of the Golden West in 1998 and renovated as a meeting
hall and a place to display their early California artifacts in their efforts to preserve the “Spirit of . . . — — Map (db m124459) HM
'California' is believed to be the oldest camellia plant on record in Southern California. It arrived in 1888 as an unnamed seedling and was purchased for 25 cents off a Japanese tramp steamer in Redondo Beach harbor. For nearly 70 years the plant, . . . — — Map (db m124471) HM
On this site stands CSO-4 (Pico #4), California's first commerically productive well. It was spudded in early 1876, under the direction of Demetrius G. Scofield, later to become first president of Standard Oil Company of California, and was . . . — — Map (db m157684) HM
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