Two plaques are on this monument:

Upper Marker:

Weaverville

This town was created in 1850 by the early miners, merchants, craftsmen and worshippers as the gold mining and commercial center of the area. Here they built of brick, earth and wood the examples of white and Chinese culture that you now see. It survived numerous conflagrations and depressions to be honored in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 as a community of unusual historic significance relating to the gold rush period.

Marker erected by

Trinitarianus Chapter No. 62

E Clampus Vitus

July 15, 1972

[Lower Marker:]

Mountain Charlie

Charles Henry “Mountain Charlie” McKiernan, a native of Ireland, made his fortune as a teamster near the Weaverville mines. Business was prosperous until local natives ran “his mules” off, forcing him to move to Santa Clara County, where he continued his teamster operations among his many other ventures and became the “celestial” clampatriarch of the of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, Mountain Charlie Chapter. His motto: “Right Wrongs Nobody.”

Dedicated November 8, 1980

Trinitarianus Chapter No. 62

and previously dedicated in Santa Clara County

October 11, 1980

Mountain Charlie Chapter No. 1850

E Clampus Vitus

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (California Route 299) and Trinity Lake Boulevard (California Route 3) on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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