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 ...

Aurora

Aurora, founded in 1860, was claimed by both California and Nevada. In 1861, the California legislature created Mono County and fixed the county seat here. In 1863 a border survey showed the camp was in Nevada and the Mono County ...

East Walker Toll House

Henry Hayes lived in the toll house building on this site and collected tolls beginning about 1880 and continued until the county purchased the road in 1915. State ownership occurred August 21, 1833. Tolls were 25¢ for saddle horsed, 75¢ ...

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 ...

Fremont’s Trail 1844

On January 27th, a cold winter day in 1844, Captain John C. Fremont and his guide Kit Carson, led as small band of half-starved men west past this point. They were in search of the fabled Buena Ventura River, which ...

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 ...

The Emigrants of 1852-1853

Originating from Ohio & Indiana, the Clark Skidmore party of 1852 – 75 people & 13 mule wagons – was the 1st wagon train to gross the Sierra-Nevada via the Walker River-Sonora route. 35 days were spent to blaze a ...

Strawberry

Strawberry Flat House, established about 1853 and named after the wild strawberry plants that grew at the Lair of the Golden Bear, the main stopping place on the Mono Road to accomodate [sic] the travelers over the new route. Across ...

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, ...