The Church Bell

The citizens of Newry had been having church service in the hall over the company store for a good while after the village was built. They petitioned the company to allow them to start a building fund, which was agreed ...

Putnam County Civil War Honor Roll

[ Plaque - “One” ]

Civil War Veterans

who died during the war

W. F. Boyd ? J. W. Busby ? W. Conklin

J. H. McGill ? J. Singer

[ Plaque - “Two” ]

( Row One )

W. Ball ? A. C. Batte ...

Water Wheel

Water wheels were commonplace to the gold mining regions, providing power for mining and milling operations. Powered by water the wheel was attached to a series of belts and gears which turned the machinery to crush the ores. This water ...

The Hogarth Family

The Hogarth Family has had a long involvement with the mining industry in Angels Camp. Patriarch Henry ("Harry") Hogarth, Sr. was born in Scotland in 1831. He immigrated to the United States at an early age and soon settled on ...

Sloat Mill Site

(Thought to have been named for Commodore John Drake Sloat of Bear Flag Revolt fame)

Several ranches were established in Long Valley during the 1800s. In 1912, the Sloat Lumber Co. cut the first boards in its new sawmill, allowing the ...

The Hogarth Stamp Mill

Common in California after 1853, the stamp mill consisted from one to five heavy pillar-like stamps whose bottom, (or shoes), were cylindrical hammers made of iron, each weighing as much as one thousand pounds. Power to operate the stamps was ...

Sloat Towne Hall

The Sloat Towne Hall is the only remaining public building in Sloat. It was built in 1935 as a union and meeting hall, and was donated by the United Independent Workers’ Union to the community in 1956.

The town of Sloat ...

Hogarth Stamp Mill

In 1895 Harry Hogarth, James Candy and Naylor Williams filed a claim for the Relief Quartz Mine on a hillside above Six Mile Creek near Angels Camp. In 1920, after working the claim by hand for many years, the Hogarths; ...

Feather Publishing Co.

Marker on Left:

Feather Publishing Co.

A tradition of newspapers serving Plumas County since 1866

Dedicated September 15, 1978

Marker on Right:

Commemorating 125 Years of Journalism

Serving Plumas County

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Crescent Street (State Highway 70 / 89) and ...

Beckwourth Trail – Grizzly Creek

“Crossed a brook with high banks, where Squire Stephens upset the wagon he was driving in which was Philip Linthicum and he was hurt very badly” – John Dalton, Sep. 2, 1852

Marker is on Oroville-Bucks Lake Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org