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Dick's Artifacts Photos 4 (Man-made Objects - Page 4 of 5) |
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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 |
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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) |
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 |
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 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
