Some PML streets have these local family names.
Do you recognize the names?
photo courtesy of Mary Smith Lindsey
A reunion of Big Oak Flat Road '49ers, Top row, left to right: George F. Culbertson of Moccasin, Nathan Screech of First Garrote, Barna Fox of Big Oak Flat, Jack Bell, and Caspar Cook. Lower row, left to right: James A. Chaffee of Second Garrote, Jason P. Chamberlain of Second Garrote, James Ballentine, Tom Maxey, who participated in the first Indian trouble in Big Oak Flat during Savage's time (Savage's Diggings), and Winslow Hubbard.
(Fox Court, Chamberlain Court, and Chaffee Circle.)
MOTHER LODE MEMORIES
Loggers and a Giant Sequoia
The focal point of Ironstone Vineyard's Heritage Museum in Murphy's is the largest Crystalline Gold Leaf specimen in the world. Weighing forty-four pounds, this specimen of gold was discovered by the Sonora Mining Company at the Harvard Mine in Jamestown, CA on Christmas Day, in 1992, fifteen miles from its current home at Ironstone. Crystalline Gold is one of the most rare and precious natural gold formations consisting of gold that has been deposited in layers between quartz, clay, maraposite, decomposed shale and pyrite. The "Gold Pocket", as it has come to be known, is 98 percent pure, making it a specimen of exceedingly high quality and value. Sixty-three pounds before preparation, it spent almost a year in an acid bath, washing away most of the surrounding matrix to ultimately reveal the forty-four pound specimen on display at the winery.
Groveland 1905 (photo courtesy of Roy Brooks)
Stage on Oak Flat Road (credit: Yosemite Museum)
Courtesy of Tuolumne County Historical Society
The building at the right which housed the Justice of the Peace and post office
were destroyed by fire in 1920.
