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

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ALTAVILLE The history of Altaville is closely identified with the history of 288 Angels Camp. Altaville has been the foundry town of Calaveras County with D. D. Demarest establishing a foundry there in 1854. Most of the stamp mills and a large part of the mining machinery erected in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties were built at the Altaville Foundry. The townsite was established in 1873. A brick schoolhouse was built at Altaville in 1858. 1 mile north of Angels Camp (Calaveras) FIRST HOME OF POMONA COLLEGE Pomona College, incorporated October 14, 1887, held its first class 289 in this small frame cottage on September 12, 1888. Those in attendance consisted of a mere handful of eager students, five faculty members and their president, Professor Edwin C. Norton. Five months later, January 1889, the college moved to the town of Claremont, where an unfinished boom hotel and a plot of land were given to the college. West Fifth and South White Streets, Pomona (Los Angeles) DISCOVERY WELL OF KERN RIVER OILFIELD Oil was discovered here at 70 feet in 1899 when Tom Means 290 persuaded Roe Elwood and Frank Wiseman to dig for oil, aided by Jonathan, Bert, Jud, and Ken Elwood, George Wiseman and John Marlowe. June 1, 1899, 400 feet north Horace and : Milton McWhorter drilled the first commercial well. Oilcenter (Kern) FAGES-ZALVIDEA CROSSING In 1772 Don Pedro Fages, first recorded white man to visit the southern San Joaquin Valley, crossed this spot on his way from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. Near this point crossed Father José Maria de Zalvidea in 1806, while accompanying the Ruiz exPedition in search of mission sites. 7 miles west of Mettler Station (Kern) Pioneer Oi! and Golden Dream Monuments (Nos. 172 and 168, Los Angeles) HOME OF LOLA MONTEZ Lola was born in Limerick, Ireland, July 3, 1818, and baptized 292 Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilberc. After living in England and on the continent, Lola, diminutive of Dolores, came to New York in 1854; and eventually settled in Grass Valley in 1852. It was here she built the only home she ever owned. She became friends with Lotta Crabtree, who lived up the street. Lola died January 17, 1861, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New York. 248 Mill Street, Grass Valley (Nevada) HOME OF LOTTA CRABTREE ; aes Crabtree was born in New York in 1847. In 1852 the gold 293 fever brought Mr. Crabtree to California and a year later his wife and Lotta. Several months after arriving in San Francisco 53.