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California Historical Landmarks (PH 9-13)(Before 1969) (134 pages)

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ous wealth. The gold mine possibly could be within a few miles of this monument. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (San Diego) FIRST U.S. NAVAL STATION IN THE PACIFIC Mare Island Navy Yard was established September 16, 1854, by 751 the then Commander David G. Farragut, USN. Site was selected in 1852 by a commission headed by Commodore John D. Saleee Mare Island had the Navy’s first shipyard, ammunioe iepot alse, Magne barracks, cemetery, chapel, and radio Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo (Solano) FU ee OWENS LAKE SILVER-LEAD COMPANY 752 by Colonel She e Silver-Lead furnace and mill was built here erman Stevens in 1869 and used until March 1874. ae Leger Hotel Sie Cal ee averas County Courthouse (No. 663, Calaveras) risa Brady assumed its operation in 1870 for the Silver-Lead mpany and built the town of Swansea. During the next few ae the oan a this furnace and another at Cerro Gordo aroun a ilver every ighi rate ts of silver every 24 hours, each weighing Swansea (Inyo) SAN FERNANDO CEMETERY This cemetery, earlier known as Morningside Cemetery, is the 753 oldest nonsectarian cemetery in San Fernando Valley. It was established in the early 1800's and was still active until 1939. The cemetery was legally abandoned in 1959. In the same year Mrs. Nellis S. Noble donated this site in memory of the pioneers of San Fernando as a pioneer memorial park. Bledsoe and Foothill, Sylmar (Los Angeles) SITE OF THE MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE OF ART In February 1893, Mr. Edward F. Searles donated the Hopkins 754 Mansion to the University of California in trust for the San Francisco Art Institute for “instruction in and illustration of the fine arts, music and literature,” and as San Francisco's first cultural center. California and Mason, ora eee built . the site of an The Edward B. Carrell home was uilt here at the site 755 Indian village on Fl Camino Viejo, an old Spanish trail. Through here passed the forty-niners and the first mail to the le mines. Men and animals received food and drink at Wright's 500 yards north of here. rest of Tracy (San Joaquin) San Francisco (San Francisco) this site of the Sycawith General Andres tion to the United the community SYCAMORE TREE In 1846 General John C. Frémont eae Tree on his was to sign a tre . i Be to eaare California for furure annexal® d the padres as 4 resting place; States. It serve 117.