Dick's Artifacts
Photos 4
(Man-made Objects - Page 4
of 5)
Bodie, Mariposa,
Mendocino |
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New
photos added here November 19,
2022 (captions
in red) |
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Artifacts
1: Gas
& Steam Engine Museum, Other Stuff
Artifacts
2:
Barns,
Windmills and Water Tanks,
Corrals, Fences & the Like
Artifacts
3: Bridges,
Railroad,
Vehicles
Artifacts
5: Clovis,
Sacramento,
St.
Louis, Artwork
Links |
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larger view (photos open in a new window).
Captions that are links take you to a
page with more information about that photo. |
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Mariposa |
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Old trestle, Mariposa Mine |
Stamp mill cams, Mariposa Mine |
Stamps, Mariposa
Mine |
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Motor,
pulley and flywheel |
Stamp
shafts |
Stamp mill cams after a fire burned the
mine building |
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Old
piers of 5th Street Bridge |
Rock
wall at Mt. Ophir, Highway 49 South of Mariposa |
Mariposa County Court House (built
1854 and in continuous use) |
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Cattle chute,
Cathey's Valley, Mariposa County, California |
Corral above
Mariposa |
Mariposa County
High School |
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Back
side of downtown, west
side toward Mariposa Creek |
Mariposa in 1859
(Carlton E. Watkins) |
Mariposa about
1950 (Roy Radanovich) |
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Old
Bootjack Dance Hall, about 1960 |
Close
up of front porch |
The
old wood stove inside |
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West
side of the old hall |
Old Masonic Hall in Mariposa, now the Sixth Street Cinema |
Old Oddfellows Lodge in Mariposa - note iron shutters on upper floor |
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Mariposa Hotel,
upper story |
Plaque
commemorating Elliott's Corner, just off Highway 49 at Chowchilla
Mountain Road |
A
closer view |
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Judge
J.J. Trabucco home; later the Dale Campbell family home |
Mariposa probably
late 1940s (from a postcard)
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The
old Mariposa County High School, built about 1917 |
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Power
pole on Guadalupe Grade, Highway 140 in Mariposa County |
At
Triangle Road and Highway 140 (Susan Crandall photo) |
Snow
in downtown Mariposa (photographer unknown) |
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Sign
at Savage Trading Post, Highway140 near El Portal |
Barbed
wire and old tank at Merrill Ranch on Triangle Road |
Planing
mill building |
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The
historic Wawona Hotel dates from around 1880
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Warning
sign at one end of the Stockton Preserve Trail - none at the other
end |
Pine
Tree Mine near Bear Valley in 1939 (source unknown) |
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Ghirardelli
Chocolate Company building in Hornitos, CA |
Plaque
on building (Hornitos photos by Susan Merrill Crandall) |
St.
Catherine's Catholic Church and cemetery in Hornitos |
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Bagby
Cabins, Mariposa's Oldest Motel (from a photo displayed in the
building); later Sierra View Motel; currently River Rock Inn |
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Sign
for motel |
Motel
restaurant building in 2017 |
The
motel |
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Hoist
used to lift heavy buckets
of gold ore from the mine shaft |
5-Stamp
mill at Mariposa Museum,
used to crush gold bearing quartz ore |
Stove
from Mariposa Court House, now in the museum |
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Mendocino |
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Water tower in
Mendocino Village |
House in
Mendocino Village |
More
Mendocino houses |
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Lush
flowers set off this home in Mendocino village |
Mendocino
CA is noted for its many wood water
tanks and towers |
A
superior example of a Mendocino water tower |
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This
one has a great view |
Many
have been converted to living spaces |
Windmills
pumped the water into the tanks |
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This
remarkable cabinet was in a Mendocino gift shop |
If
you're trying to read the price tag, it's only $8500 |
The
green door |
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This apparent former church is now an
organic produce store |
Masonic Hall in Mendocino, with a bank
on the bottom floor |
A
fairly basic water tower design |
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House
and water tower |
One
of two double-tank structures |
This
one is a gift shop |
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Southern
view of Mendocino Village |
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Bodie |
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Bodie Historical
Marker |
The Bodie Gold
Mine |
Methodist church |
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Methodist Church steeple |
One of Bodie's finer homes |
The Bodie School House |
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A few buildings have
flattened tin cans as added outer insulation |
The elements
slowly take over |
"Downtown" Bodie |
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Another
view of the church, 1995 |
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