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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. The stop was built to support those stopping on their way from local mines to Stockton, California. On the road at the Stone Corral a Methodist church ...
wooden deck truss bridge: Alexander-Acacia Bridge: 1925, 1927 1984-01-05 Larkspur: Marin: Bridgeport Covered Bridge: 1862 1971-07-14 French Corral: Nevada: Covered combination truss & arch: Burro Schmidt's Tunnel: 1938 2003-03-20 Ridgecrest: Kern: Earthen tunnel
Built in 1898, at the corner of 9th and J Street in Sacramento, California, the 20,000 square feet building was built by the behest of Frank F. Ruhstaller and housed The Ruhstaller Brewery offices. Ruhstaller also managed Buffalo Brewery and made the building its headquarters as well.
A timber bridge or wooden bridge is a bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material. One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times. Wooden bridges could be a deck-only structure or a deck with a roof. Wooden bridges were often a single span, but could be of multiple spans.
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.
Log fences or split-rail fences were simple fences constructed in newly cleared areas by stacking log rails. Earth could also be used as a fence; an example was what is now called the sunken fence , or "ha-ha," a type of wall built by digging a ditch with one steep side (which animals cannot scale) and one sloped side (where the animals roam).
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