Things To Do in Chinese Camp, California

Inscription. Reportedly founded about 1849 by group of Englishmen who employed Chinese as miners. Much surface gold found on hills and flats. Headquarters for stage lines in early 1850s, and for several California Chinese mining companies. ... More on HMDB

Inscription. First record of Montezuma was June 1850 when partners Solomon Miller and Peter K. Aurand, proprietors of the 'Montezuma Tent, ' were attacked and Aurand killed by a group of Mexicans during the foreign miners tax excitement ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Born December 17, 1880, in Snelling, Calif. One of the last of the stage drivers, Eddie made the haul from Chinese to the Coulterville, Groveland areas between 1898-1902 and drove the first mail stage over the "new" Shawmut ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Created by Don Pedro Dam on the Tuolumne River near LaGrange. This project was completed in 1971 to provide irrigation, domestic water, flood control, electricity, recreation and fish enhancement. Constructed by City ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Near this site, now inundated by the waters of Don Pedro Reservoir, stood the historic town of Jacksonville. It was settled by Julian Smart who planted the first garden and orchard in the spring of 1849. Named for Colonel ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Tuolumne County history begins here. Early in 1848 a party of Philadelphia prospectors under the leadership of James Woods discovered gold 500 feet south east of this marker, where the old road crosses the creek now bearing ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Founded in 1848, one mile from the first gold find in Tuolumne County, at Woods Crossing. Arriving in 1849, Col. George F. James, a merchant popular for supplying free champagne to patrons, was elected acalde, and the ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Californias gold country was in the midst of a second gold rush when the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors approved construction of a Jamestown Branch Jail. It was designed by Sonora architect C. W. Ayers and built ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Dedicated to the Historic, Site of, The Red Light District: One of the original six, houses on Smoke Street, , Erected 2002 by Anona Parlor No.164, Native Daughters of the Golden West. , Location. 37° 57.251′ ... More on HMDB