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

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Harry Love. Terrorized mining camps and stage operations during his career. West of Highway 33, 16 miles northwest of Coalinga (Fresno) GRANVILLE P. SWIFT ADOBE Granville P. Swift crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843 and 345 entered California with the Kelsey party in 1844. In 1849, in partnership with Frank Sears, he purchased from J. S. Williams the cattle and grant of the Larkin grant. Swift soon had droves of cattle herded by Indian vaqueros, and rodeos were held annually at this adobe site. 1.5 miles north of Orland on Hambright Creek (Glenn) HOCK FARM (SITE OF) This memorial is constructed of the original iron from the fort 346 of Hock Farm established in 1841 by John Augustus Sutter, being the first white settlement in Sutter County. The fort and farm buildings were located on the banks of the Feather River Opposite this point. 8 miles south of Marysville (Sutter) KNIGHT’S FERRY 347 Benue due mining center and trading post, 1849. Once called entville. Early ferry to the southern mines, county scat, 1862-72; ae wooden covered bridge reportedly designed by U. S. Grant, Kni rother-in-law of Dent brothers, 1854; old flour mill, 1854. nights Ferry (Stanislaus) Mec OF GOVERNOR ALVARADO 348 Dew aor Monterey, Governor of California under Mexican rule trati manenj20; 1836, to December 20, 1842. During his adminisanise the increasing influx of Americans, and the Russian lem tiie at Fort Ross, began to be regarded as a serious prob+ Aussians withdrew in 1841. 98 Alvarado Street, Monterey (Monterey) CAMP INDEPENDENCE (FORT) At old Fort Independence a company of U.S. soldiers under 349 Colonel Evans was stationed on July 4, 1862, to protect the settlers from the Indians. But it was not until the fall of 1863 that settlers, believing hostilities were at an end, began coming into the valley in an ever increasing stream. Troops were maintained there continuously from 1865 until irs abandonment in 1877. 3 miles northeast of Independence (Inyo) 4 4 MISSION PURISIMA CONCEPCION (SITE OF) Mission Purisima Concepcién and Mission San Pedro y San Pablo 350 once stood 12 miles apart in the southeastern corner of Imperial County. The two were established in 1780 by four Franciscan padres from Mexico. The purpose of these missions was twofold —to convert the Yuma Indians living along the Colorado River and to make a way station on the overland emigrant trail from Mexico to the California missions. On July 17, 1781, the Yuma an Bautista Mission (No. 195, San Benito) Plaza and Hotel, San Ju 6].