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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Adventure: 051, Site 118 – Sutter Memorial

Capture California, the Game-2012
Adventure: 051, Site 118 – Sutter Memorial
California Historical Landmark: 322

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 23.541′ N
Longitude: 120° 48.159′ W
Address: 18 Main Street, Sutter Creek CA 95685


Description:

The area around Sacramento and the foothills in the gold country is just littered with memorials to John Sutter. This one seems to be appropriate since it is at Sutter Creek. Thing One and Thing Two were looking around for a landmark in the town of Sutter Creek. But we were not finding it. We found a very moving Veteran's memorial when you come into the town, we also found Knight's Foundry. But no plaque 322. So we took pictures of the Sutter memorial.



It was only as we were writing this up did we realize, Eureka! We Found It! It is the Sutter Memorial.



See our adventure 051, site 89 for more on Sutter.




NO. 322 SUTTER CREEK - This town was named after John A. Sutter, who came to the region in 1846, and was the first to mine the locality in 1848. There was little activity at Sutter Creek until 1851, when quartz gold was discovered. In 1932 the Central Eureka mine, discovered in 1869, had reached the 2,300-foot level. By 1939, it was the best-paying mine at Sutter Creek.
Location:  Veteran's Memorial Hall, Main and Badger Sts, Sutter Creek



Inscription says:
In Memory Of General John A. Sutter
Benefactor of the Great State of California
Who mined here and gave Sutter Creek its name and under whose regime gold was discovered.
Also to those pioneer mothers, fathers and miners of the Mother Lode which has produced millions in gold. This rock used in Mother Lode champion hand drilling contests.
Tablet placed and dedicated by th Native Sons and Native Daughters of the Golden West of Sutter Creek. May 10, 1942



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Adventure: 051, Site 117 – Knights Foundry

Capture California, the Game-2012
Adventure: 051, Site 117 – Knights Foundry
California Landmark Number: 1007
National Registry ID: 1975000423


Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 23.566′ N
Longitude: 120° 48.088′ W
Address: 81 Eureka St, Sutter Creek



Description:
Date Built: 1873

From the outside, the buildings look like hundreds of other corrugated tin buildings. The weeds are growing from neglect and it looks like the place has not operated for years. But what happened over a hundred years ago changed how foundries were built. Samuel Knight recognized the need in the early 1870's for gold mining equipment to be made and repaired. SO he opened a foundry. In doing so, he created a mechanism where water could be forced on a gear, causing it to turn. He produced 300 of these gears which would be found all over the West. Lester Allan Pelton created a wheel similar to Knights, but more efficient. When Knight died in 1913, he passed on the foundry to his employees, who operated until 1970 when the last employee-owner died. Currently the City of Sutter Creek owns the foundry, while waiting for a benefactor to help open the place as a museum.



NO. 1007 KNIGHT FOUNDRY - Knight Foundry was established in 1873 to supply heavy equipment and repair facilities to the gold mines and timber industry of the Mother Lode. Samuel N. Knight developed a high speed, cast iron water wheel which was a forerunner of the Pelton Wheel design. Knight Wheels were used in some of the first hydroelectric plants in California, Utah, and Oregon. This site is the last water powered foundry and machine shop in California. A 42-inch Knight Wheel drives the main line shaft, with smaller water motors powering other machines.
Location:  81 Eureka St, Sutter Creek
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places:  NPS-75000423



From HMDB:
Unlike other California State Historical Markers which are cast in bronze, this marker is cast in iron (steel?)and was done at the foundry.



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