Bekeart’s Gun Shop
Jules Francois Bekeart was a gunsmith who came here in 1849 to mine gold and soon became a close friend of James Marshall. The hard labor of gold mining was not to his liking, so “Frank” Berkeart started a highly successful gunsmith business in a wood-frame and canvas building near this site. This brick building was constructed in 1852 after the wood building burned. It is thought to be Coloma’s oldest structure.
Marker is on Highway 49 (Main Street), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
