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Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, California

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, Ca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Located at the foot of Eureka Peak (originally called Gold Mountain), the park features an indoor-outdoor museum of early gold mining equipment and relics... More

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, California

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, Ca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Located at the foot of Eureka Peak (originally called Gold Mountain), the park features an indoor-outdoor museum of early gold mining equipment and relics... More

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro Bay on California's Central Coast

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a world heritage landmark, natural or regular park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

A mining site ruin at Shasta State Historic Park in the now-deserted town of Shasta City, west of Redding, California

A mining site ruin at Shasta State Historic Park in the now-deserted t...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. There, a row of old, half-ruined, brick buildings reminds passing motorists that Shasta City, the lusty "Queen City" of California's northern mining distr... More

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro Bay on California's Central Coast

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This section often takes a pounding from waves, making it a popular site for surfers. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photograph... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, California

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, Ca...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, high above Santa Barbara, California

Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, high above Sa...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The walls of a single small cave carved from towering sandstone boulders contain some of the finest remaining rock art created by Chumash Native Americans... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro Bay on California's Central Coast

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This section often takes a pounding from waves, making it a popular site for surfers. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photograph... More

Old building on Angel Island, an island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais

Old building on Angel Island, an island in San Francisco Bay that offe...

The island has been used for a variety of purposes, including military forts, a US Public Health Service Quarantine Station, and a US Bureau of Immigration inspection and detention facility. Title, date and key... More

Officers' quarters at Fort Tejon, a California State Historical Park, in Grapevine Canyon on the main route between California's central valley and Southern California

Officers' quarters at Fort Tejon, a California State Historical Park, ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fort, first garrisoned in 1854, was established to protect and control Indians who were living on the Sebastian Indian Reservation, and to protect bot... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro Bay on California's Central Coast

Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This section often takes a pounding from waves, making it a popular site for surfers. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photograph... More

Scene, including a barracks building, from California's Fort Tejon State Park in Grapevine Canyon on the main route between California's central valley and Southern California

Scene, including a barracks building, from California's Fort Tejon Sta...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fort, first garrisoned in 1854, was established to protect and control Indians who were living on the Sebastian Indian Reservation, and to protect bot... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

An unusual historic marker, placed in 1931 at Shasta State Historic Park in the now-deserted town of Shasta City, west of Redding, California

An unusual historic marker, placed in 1931 at Shasta State Historic Pa...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. There, a row of old, half-ruined, brick buildings reminds passing motorists that Shasta City, the lusty "Queen City" of California's northern mining distr... More

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, California

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, Ca...

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Quartermaster's shop building at Fort Tejon State Park in Grapevine Canyon on the main route between California's central valley and Southern California

Quartermaster's shop building at Fort Tejon State Park in Grapevine Ca...

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The quartermaster's shop building at Fort Tejon, a California State Historical Park, in Grapevine Canyon on the main route between California's central valley and southern California

The quartermaster's shop building at Fort Tejon, a California State Hi...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fort, first garrisoned in 1854, was established to protect and control Indians who were living on the Sebastian Indian Reservation, and to protect bot... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

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