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

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Mission Santa Inés (No. 305, Santa Barbara) out of famous bandit, Joaquin Murieta. Site of story, “The Battle of Sawmill Flat.” Sawmill Flat (Tuolumne) LA CANADA DE LOS COCHES RANCHO Commemorating Cajfiada de los Coches Rancho, smallest Mexican 425 Grant in California. Granted in 1843 to Apolinaria Lorenzana by Governor Manuel Micheltorena. Site of old grist mill. 6.5 miles east of El Cajon (San Diego) SITE OF STONE AND KELSEY HOME Built by Charles Stone and Andy Kelsey on land purchased 426 from Salvador Vallejo. Constructed by forced Indian labor, causing much resentment and culminating in murder by Indians of both Stone and Kelsey in the fall of 1849. Their remains are beneath this monument. Kelseyville (Lake) 72 THE BATTLE OF BLOODY ISLAND One-fourth mile west was Bloody Island, now a hill surrounded 427 by reclaimed land. On this island in 1850, US. soldiers nearly annihilated all its inhabitants for the murder of two white men. Doubt exists of these Indians’ guilt. In 1851 a treaty between whites and Indians entered into. 2 miles southeast of Upper Lake (Lake) SULPHUR BANK MINE This sulphur mine also produced quicksilver and became one 428 of most noted producers in world. First worked for sulphur in 1865 and in four years produced total of 2,000,000 pounds. Reopened and developed for quicksilver in 1873 and credited with total output of 92,400 flasks. Was important producer World Wars I and II. 1.5 miles south of Clearlake Oaks (Lake) FORT BIDWELL Onument marks the sj . +1: 430 Established in August 1865 to yee bidwell_ military post. UBust 1865 to protect pioneer settlers of this vicinity from maraudin bands of i resin g S of Indians. Abandoned as an Fort Bidwell (Modoc) JAMESTOWN.