Rhode Island Red

To commemorate the birthplace of the Rhode Island Red breed of fowl which originated near this location. Red fowls were breed extensively by farmers of this district and later named Rhode Island Reds and brought into National prominence by the ...

Oil Field Lease House

Once the oil boom began in 1915, men and their families flooded the El Dorado area to find work in the oil fields. Small 2 to 5 room houses were built by the oil companies on land that was leased ...

Tool Rack

Rack contains various cable tool bits such as fishing tools, jars, rope sockets and elevators. These pieces were used with the adjoining cable tool rig. Many of these pieces of equipment were stored at yards and tool houses.

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Steel Oil Derrick / 1930's Cable-Tool Drilling Rig

This derrick is one of the last wood and steel oil derricks which once dotted the Butler County countryside. It was built in the mid-1940's and is 100 feet high.

Donated by: Larry Crawford

Donors: Joe Degan Pipe & Supply, Albert Hogoboom, ...

The Brown Bear

The Brown bear was originally cast in plaster by Eli Harvey. A fund raiser campaign to "put a hair on the bear" was led by Senator Theodore Francis Green Class of 1887, and resulted in the commission of a bronze ...

Won Lim Miao

Hundreds of Chinese miners came to the Weaverville area in the 1850’s and prospered despite hardships, discrimination and tax on foreign miners. The first house of worship burned in 1873; the Chinese continued their religious traditions in the present temple, ...

Chinese Tong War

In the year 1854 on this site two belligerent Chinese Tongs fought a pitched battle, 2000 participated, 26 lost their lives, and many were wounded.

Marker is on Trinity Lake Boulevard (California Route 3), on the right when traveling east.

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Paymaster Mine Stampmill

The Paymaster Goldmine in Eastman Gulch, northeast of Lewiston, was located by Billy Richards, Bob Hamilton and Gene Goodyear in 1901. The original mill was built about 1904. The machinery was dismantled, restored and re-erected in this similar mill building ...

Bovina

(Elevation: 4070 feet)

Early in the 20th century, this was one of largest cattle shipping points in the United States.

Originated as the Hay Hook Line Camp of the XIT — famed ranch that received over 3,000,000 acres of land in payment ...

Trinity Congregational Church

Established 1875

Erected 1891

Marker is on Main Street (California Route 3 / 229), on the right when traveling north.

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