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registered as California Historical Landmark #786. Golden Fleece Tunnel 39°11′09″N 120°37′02″W / 39.185735°N 120.617152°W / 39.185735; -120.
The Stone Corral in Rancho Calaveras, California in Calaveras County is historical site of the old west California Gold Rush. The Stone Corral site is a California Historical Landmark No. 263 listed on September 3, 1937. The Stone Corral had a hotel, barns. It was named after the large horses and cattle corrals it had.
As part of the California Gold Rush in 1850, the 21 year old Silas traveled to California in a wagon train. In 1857, Luman and their parents followed Silas, but came by sail ship to San Francisco . Like many 49ers, the family tried mining for gold and also worked at the Buffalo Gold and Silver Mining Company in Petaluma, California .
The park, named for the creek flowing through the property, contains the historic stone John Marsh house, ranching buildings, and numerous pre-historic archaeological sites. The creek is named for the ranch's former owner and California pioneer John Marsh (1799–1856), who was a doctor, rancher, landowner and the first non-Hispanic European to ...
One of many old stone walls found around the southern and eastern San Francisco Bay in California, this one near San Jose. The East Bay Walls, also known as the Berkeley Mystery Walls, are a misnomer, as many such walls can be found throughout the hills surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area, and extend as far as Chico, Red Bluff and Montague.
Some of these carvings are thought to be as much as two or three thousand years old and are now becoming difficult to discern. This association of rock art and bedrock mortar pits is unique in California. Except for one other small site, Chaw'se has the only known occurrence of mortars intentionally decorated with petroglyphs. [4]
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Now known as the Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, it is owned by the State of California and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Log Cabin: Bellevue: NE c. 1835 Residential The oldest building in Nebraska. It originally served as a fur trapper's home. Larkin House: Monterey: CA 1835 Residential Oldest two-story house in ...