Download or read book Northern Calaveras County written by Judith Marvin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Calaveras County stretches eastward from the valley towns of Wallace and Jenny Lind, through the Campo Seco and Mokelumne Hill gold country, to the county seat in San Andreas and finally extends to the upcountry mining camps and logging settlements of West Point and Railroad Flat. Historically water and trails connected these diverse regions. The Mokelumne River and its tributariesdiverted into flumes and ditchesbrought water to the river bars, mines, ranches, settlements, and towns and provided their lifeblood. Trails first followed Native American paths and then developed into stage roads, railroads, and state highways. These routes connected the valley to the mountains and carried pioneers seeking gold, water, timber, fertile land, and recreation to new lands and new lives.
Download or read book Northern Calaveras County written by Judith Marvin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Calaveras County stretches eastward from the valley towns of Wallace and Jenny Lind, through the Campo Seco and Mokelumne Hill gold country, to the county seat in San Andreas and finally extends to the upcountry mining camps and logging settlements of West Point and Railroad Flat. Historically water and trails connected these diverse regions. The Mokelumne River and its tributaries--diverted into flumes and ditches--brought water to the river bars, mines, ranches, settlements, and towns and provided their lifeblood. Trails first followed Native American paths and then developed into stage roads, railroads, and state highways. These routes connected the valley to the mountains and carried pioneers seeking gold, water, timber, fertile land, and recreation to new lands and new lives.
Download or read book Something From Nothing written by Salvatore John Manna and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating and colorful history of west Calaveras County in northern California, the pioneering people and events that shaped Gold Country towns such as Valley Springs, Burson, Wallace, Jenny Lind, Campo Seco, Camanche, Milton, Paloma and more. Bringing together the first 100 numbered "Something From Nothing" monthly columns plus two bonus features, each penned by author and historian Sal Manna and first published in The Valley Springs News from March 2006 to June 2014, this volume features dozens of never-before-revealed stories as well as hundreds of historical photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, most published here for the first time. West Calaveras was home to the most powerful and controversial politician in California history (William Gwin), the first California-born admiral in the U.S. Navy (Ted Vogelgesang), the pioneer woman who inspired a TV series (Euphemia Hill), two men who helped create the olive industry in northern California (Henry Moore and Louis Sammis), the entrepreneur who revolutionized the circular saw and became mayor of Oakland (Nathan Spaulding), an acclaimed landscape painter (Arthur Earl Haddock), and the only African American Civil War soldier buried in the Mother Lode (John Dawson). West Calaveras has within its borders Wallace, the only town on the globe named after the family of renowned naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace; Milton, the only town in California named after Milton Latham, one of the state's first U.S. congressmen, our sixth governor, and one of our two U.S. senators at the start of the Civil War; and Burson, the only town in the county named after a Civil War veteran, Daniel Smith Burson. Within these pages are a famed bridge builder (Samuel Ryland), a dam named for a governor (George Pardee), a murderer whose case set a precedent that continues to be cited 100 years later (Joseph Hubert), and the man who shot infamous outlaw Black Bart (Reason McConnell) plus the story of Ah Lin, the last Chinese miner; silent film star Nance O'Neil, who lived with the notorious Lizzie Borden; Elijah Swinford, who served in both the Union and Confederate armies; and Thomas Van Buren, the man responsible for Double Springs becoming our first county seat. This collection also embraces a descendant of the model for a character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and a builder of the U.S.S. Constitution, and descendants of several U.S. Presidents; as well as historic homes and historic railroads, doctors and teachers, shopkeepers and soldiers, hard-working farmers, miners and businessmen, and vicious criminals too; a boxer and baseball players; rock art and poetry; hotels and automobiles; politics and family life; disasters and triumphs. This is local history, state history and even American history as experienced within the borders of one of California's original counties.
Download or read book Calaveras County Map Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calaveras County Illustrated and Described Showing Its Advantages for Homes written by W.W. Elliott & Co and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Olives in California s Gold Country written by Salvatore Manna and Terry Beaudoin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the olive in the Gold Country of Northern California is a story of the Spanish in the New World, of the Gold Rush, of immigrants from Italy and other Mediterranean countries, of bold pioneers, enterprising farmers and scientists, and of businessmen and businesswomen. Focusing on Calaveras County in the south and Placer County in the north, but also exploring the olive throughout most of Northern California, including olive havens such as Corning and Oroville, that story is told within these pages through rare and fascinating photographs. For those who wish to explore the olive in Northern California, whether its history, industry or technology, this volume provides both an appetizer and a satisfying entre. As love of the olive grows, for the first time a book tells the tale of the olive tree, the king of trees, in the Mother Lode of California.
Download or read book Calaveras County written by C. E. Julihn and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calaveras County written by Rick Sprain and published by Images of America. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calaveras County is one of the original 27 counties created when California was formed in 1850. At the time, it encompassed Alpine, Amador, and Mono Counties. Amador was the first to be separated in 1854, with Mono County following in 1861 and Alpine County in 1864. With the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848, Calaveras County saw immigrants from every corner of the world. These pioneers brought with them the drive to make it rich and to make their lives and their families' lives better. Some did, and some lost their lives trying. Between 1848 and 1965, the county produced about nine million ounces of gold, valued today at over $18 billion. Today, tourism in Calaveras County supports approximately 2,400 jobs and contributes about $6 million to state and local taxes. Miners still find gold in the streams and rivers, families drive the back roads exploring the old towns and mines, and wine lovers enjoy wine tastings at the more than 50 tasting rooms scattered throughout the county.
Download or read book Holocene Slip Rate and Recurrence of Surface faulting Earthquakes on the Northern Calaveras Fault at Leyden Creek Alameda County California written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining Resources of Calaveras County California written by Mark Brickell Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calaveras Gold written by Ronald H. Limbaugh and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra—were also important in the development of California’s mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras’s economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region.
Download or read book Calaveras the Land of Skulls written by Richard Coke Wood and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by Mark Twain and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."
Download or read book Great Escapes Northern California written by Laura Del Rosso and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Escapes: Selective guides for travelers who want to find quick trips and getaways within a specific locale. They take away the drudgery of sifting through online and printed travel info by listing only the most worthwhile events, activities, and places to stay and eat. Great Escapes: Northern California provides at-a-glance trip ideas to major destinations such as San Francisco and Lake Tahoe and lesser-known areas such as the Gold Rush towns of the Sierra foothills and the isolated beaches of the Sonoma coast. Activities range from catching the sunset from the best spot on Monterey Peninsula to hiking to a Sierra Nevada lookout point. Carefully-chosen places to stay all have unique charm or historical significance, and dining options range from Michelin-starred restaurants to local favorites.
Download or read book Calaveras Big Trees written by Carol Kramer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus T. Dowd could scarcely believe his eyes when he stumbled upon one of natures majestic wonders in 1852. Hunting down a wounded bear in the hills above the mining camp of Murphys, Dowd instead found a tree of mammoth proportions. After initial skepticism about the size of these trees, news of Dowds discovery quickly spread. Local businessmen soon acquired the grove of 100 mammoth trees, or giant sequoia, and built accommodations for travelers. Thus began one of Californias earliest tourist attractions in 1853. Dedicated as a California State Park in 1931, Calaveras Big Trees State Park hosts 250,000 annual visitors who come from around the world to marvel at these wondrous giants in their magnificent natural surroundings.
