Clear Creek

Clear Creek is one of the most popular and historic waterways of the Front Range. The Clear Creek watershed covers approximately 1550 square kilometers (600 square miles), includes five counties, and more than thirteen communities. From the headwaters on the ...

Jolly Rancher 1113 Washington Avenue

City of Golden, Downtown Landmark, Historic Preservation Board

In May of 1949, Bill and Dorothy Harmsen purchased an ice cream machine and leased a storefront on the east side of Washington Ave. The Harmsens chose the name Jolly Rancher for their ...

Amherst County / Rockbridge County

Area 470 Square Miles / Area 616 Square Miles

Amherst County. Formed in 1781 from Albemarle, and named for Jeffrey, Lord Amherst, British commander in the French and Indian War. Balcony Falls are in this county.

Rockbridge County. Formed in 1778 from ...

Jewels of the High Country

Fred Leighton first entered this emigrant wilderness basin in 1895 to tend cattle with his uncle Alvah Shaw. Thanks to his vision to build check dams, first one in 1920, on the stream flows in the area. The water was ...

Constitution Forest

In 1938, the celebration of the 150th anniversary

of the United States Constitution, the Virginia

Daughters of the American Revolution sponsored

the planting of Constitution Forest in this area.

With the help of the Civilian Conservation Corps

and the United States Forest Service, the memorial

forest ...

Chief William Fuller

In respect to the memory of Chief William Fuller

who succeeded to the chieftainship of the Mi-Wuk tribe at the age of 15 in 1888 and until his death continued his great interest in the welfare of California Indians A rancher, ...

Confidence Mine

Discovered in 1853, Confidence Mine became one of California’s richest gold mines. It was developed by the pioneer stage owner and pony express man Ben Holladay. An incline shaft of 1,000’ was sunk and off that a 2,000’ horizontal shaft ...

Prehistoric Irrigation in the Salt River Valley

Approximately 300 B.C. Prehistoric Indians entered the Salt River Valley. They developed an extensive canal system and raised corn, beans, squash, agave and cotton.

Over 500 miles of Hohokam canal have been recorded in the Salt River Valley. Estimates suggest that ...

Clutes Dry Dock

Volvyder's Dry Dock, 1825.

Re-established by Nicholas

Clute, 1852. Canal boats

built and repaired here.

Settlement abandoned 1907.

Marker can be reached from Riverview Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nevada City, The “Queen City of the Northern Mines”

National Register of Historic Places

Nevada City, the “Queen City of the Northern Mines”, became a town of 16,000 in the early 1850’s following the discovery of gold on Deer Creek in 1849. Here is located the largest and best preserved ...