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What is a YOLT? Well, you may have heard the term YOLO. Gary and Sherri think we can live again, not as James Bond, but as being reborn. Consequently, we are having fun in our life, after all, You Only Live Twice.

Showing posts with label Auburn. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Adventure 051, Site 099 – Bayley House / Grange House

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Adventure: 051, Site 099 – Bayley House / Grange House
California Landmark Number: 551
National Registry ID: 1978000660


Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 50.601′ N
Longitude: 121° 0.914′ W
Address: On State Hwy 49 (P.M. 31.3), 0.2 mi N of Pilot Hill

Description:
Date Built: 1861





The first Grange Hall in California, which James Marshall—yes that James Marshall, helped to found, is no longer there having been moved to Cool, CA. The marker has been removed, but the State still lists it on its web site. And the Bayley House itself is behind a chain-link fence, badly in need of restoration.



The Bayley House was built upon a gamble. In 1861, the Bayley Hotel had burnt down and AJ Bayley needed to built another hotel. He had heard the Transcontinental Railroad would be going down the Fremont Trail, right past his property. After building this house, it was found that the railroad would be cheaper to go over Donnor Pass and down through Auburn. Bayley also was a statewide Grange secretary and had the first Grange House built close to his house.

NO. 551 SITE OF CALIFORNIA'S FIRST GRANGE HALL - Pilot Hill Grange No. 1, with 29 charter members-Master, F. D. Brown - Secretary A. J. Bayley-was organized August 10, 1870. The Grange hall, dedicated at this site on November 23, 1889, was built by Alcandor A. Bayley.
Location: On State Hwy 49 (P.M. 31.3), 0.2 mi N of Pilot Hill



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Adventure 051, Site 098 – Placer County Courthouse

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Adventure: 051, Site 098 – Placer County Courthouse
No number, but a historical landmark indicating this is the site of the first hanging in Placer.

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 53.813′ N
Longitude: 121° 4.56′ W
Address: 101 Maple Street, Auburn CA 95603



Description:
Date Built: 1894

We saw the dome of the courthouse from a far. Thing Two lately has had a thing for domed county courthouses lately ever since she found out that Fresno County took down theirs. As beautiful as this courthouse is, that is not the plaque we saw at the base of the courthouse. It was talking about the first hanging in Placer County.



From the Placer County Courthouse Museum Brochure:
Three courthouses have served Placer County. The first, a canvas and wood structure, with a nearby jail built of logs. In 1852 the Court of Sessions ordered a new courthouse to be built. This building was a wood frame building with plaster walls. A bell tower called jurors to duty and sounded the fire alarm. The jail remained at its old site until it burned in June, 1855. Later that year a two-story brick jail was built next to the new courthouse. An iron cat walk connected the upstairs of the jail building to the courthouse. In 1893, after forty years, the courthouse had deteriorated to the point of needing replacement. Setting of the cornerstone of the new and third courthouse was placed on July 4, 1894. A copper box, placed under the cornerstone by local officials, held a variety of gold, silver coins, newspapers and county documents. Four years later, on July 4, 1898, the third courthouse was dedicated.
At the dedication ceremony, Judge J.E. Prewitt eulogized the merits of the new edifice:
It is our Temple of Justice; repository of our titles; fortress of our personal and property rights; fountain head of our school system; and registry of our births, marriages and deaths.






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Location: 101 Maple St, Auburn, CA 95603, USA

Adventure 051, Site 097 – City of Auburn

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Adventure: 051, Site 097 – City of Auburn
California Landmark Number: 404

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 53.767′ N
Longitude: 121° 4.741′ W
Address: SW corner of Maple St and Lincoln Way, Auburn

Description:
We came to this town, the heart of the gold country. As we walked around town a bit, we saw a town proud of its heritate. For instance, we wandered by a coffee shop and saw a group of people being given a history listen about Auburn. Or just the number of local plaques on the buildings. It is great being in a town like that.




NO. 404 CITY OF AUBURN - Gold was discovered near here by Claude Chana on May 16, 1848. First known as 'North Fork' or 'Woods Dry Diggins,' the settlement was given the name Auburn in the fall of 1849. It soon became an important mining town, trading post, and stage terminal, and also became the county seat of Sutter County in 1850 and of Placer County in 1851. It was destroyed by fires in 1855, 1859, and 1863.
Location: SW corner of Maple St and Lincoln Way, Auburn



From HMDB:
The Central Pacific Railroad's eastern terminus for many years was in Auburn. It then built east to connect with the Union Pacific at Promontory Point, Utah, becoming the western part of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

The early 20th century transcontinental highway U.S. Route 40 from Atlantic City, New Jersey to San Francisco ran through Auburn by 1926. Today it terminates in Utah; Interstate 80 has replaced it in California.



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Location: Lincoln Way & Maple St, Auburn, CA 95603, USA
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