California State Historical Landmarks: Listed by County

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In 1895, official recognition of historical sites began in Los Angeles under the formation of the Landmarks Club. In 1902, the California Historical Landmarks League in San Francisco, joined the cause to preserve the state’s history. However, it wasn’t until 1932, when the official state mandated organization first designated 20 sites as historical landmarks. Over the next few decades, changes and growth were experienced. It wasn’t until 1974 that the state legislation changed the name to State Historical Resources Commission. Nowadays, the commission falls under the supervision of California Department Parks and Rec.

Currently, there are over 1100 State Historical Landmarks. I have organized them by counties:

     

  • Alameda

    1. Site of College of California
    2. Vallejo Flour Mill
    3. Joaquin Miller Home
    4. Livermore Monument
    5. Rancho San Antonio (Peralta Grant)
    6. Estudillo Home
    7. Peralta Home
    8. Camino of Rancho San Antonio
    9. Mission San Jose
    10. Site of Shell Mound
    11. Alameda Terminal of the First Transcontinental Railroad
    12. Site of First County Courthouse
    13. Francisco Solano Alviso Adobe
    14. Cresta Blanca Winery
    15. Concannon Vineyard
    16. Leland Stanford Winery
    17. Site of Saint Mary’s College
    18. Church of St. James the Apostle
    19. Site of Nation’s First Successful Beet Sugar Factory
    20. Site of First Public School in Castro Valley
    21. San Leandro Oyster Beds
    22. Mills Hall
    23. Paramount Theater
    24. First Unitarian Church of Oakland
    25. Berkeley City Club
    26. Peralta Hacienda Site
    27. University of California, Berkeley Campus
    28. Croll Building
    29. Wente Bros. Winery
    30. Site of Blossom Rock Navigation Trees
    31. Site of the China Clipper Flight Departure
    32. Rainbow Trout Species Identified
    33. Piedmont Way
    34. Ukrania, Site of Agapius Honcharenko Farmstead
    35. Pardee Home
    36. U.S.S. Hornet
    37. Lightstation Relief

  • Alpine

    1. Marklee’s Cabin Site
    2. Kit Carson Marker
    3. Ebbetts Pass Route
    4. Memorial to Pioneer Odd Fellows
    5. Old Emigrant Road
    6. Pony Express Remount Station at Woodfords

  • Amador

    1. Maiden’s Grave
    2. Volcano
    3. Lancha Plana
    4. Drytown
    5. Pioneer Hall
    6. Oleta “Old Fiddletown”
    7. Middle Bar
    8. Clinton
    9. Irishtown
    10. Butte Store
    11. Kirkwood’s
    12. Jackson Gate
    13. Sutter Creek
    14. Plymouth Trading Post
    15. The Community Methodist Church of Ione
    16. Old Emigrant Road
    17. Site of First Amateur Astronomical Observatory of Record in California
    18. D’Agostini Winery
    19. Argonaut and Kennedy Mines
    20. D. Stewart Co. Store
    21. Site of Jackson’s Pioneer Jewish Synagogue
    22. Preston Castle
    23. California Native American Ceremonial Roundhouses (Thematic), Chaw Se’ Roundhouse
    24. Knight Foundry
    25. Big Bar

  • Butte

    1. Hooker Oak
    2. Old Suspension Bridge
    3. Rancho Chico and Bidwell Adobe
    4. Bidwell’s Bar
    5. Chinese Temple
    6. Dogtown Nugget Discovery Site
    7. Oregon City
    8. Discovery Site of the Last Yahi Indian
    9. Chico Forestry Station and Nursery
    10. Mother Orange Tree of Butte County

  • Calaveras

    1. Valley Springs
    2. San Andreas
    3. Sandy Gulch
    4. Camanche
    5. Calaveritas
    6. I.O.O.F. Hall, Mokelumne Hill
    7. Campo Seco
    8. Fourth Crossing
    9. Congregational Church
    10. Milton
    11. Stone Corral
    12. Double Springs
    13. Chili Gulch
    14. Jenny Lind
    15. Mitchler Hotel
    16. West Point
    17. Mokelumne Hill
    18. Pioneer Cemetery
    19. Douglas Flat
    20. Vallecito
    21. Carson Hill
    22. Murphys
    23. Robinson’s Ferry
    24. Glencoe (Mosquito Gulch)
    25. O’Byrne Ferry
    26. El Dorado
    27. Jesus Maria
    28. Rail Road Flat
    29. Angels Camp
    30. Altaville
    31. Paloma
    32. Copperopolis
    33. Vallecito Bell Monument
    34. Old Mining Camp of Brownsville
    35. The Peter L. Traver Building
    36. Red Brick Grammar School
    37. Courthouse of Calaveras County, 1852-1866, and Leger Hotel
    38. Angels Hotel
    39. Prince-Garibardi Building
    40. Birthplace of Archie Stevenot
    41. California Caverns at Cave City

  • Colusa

    1. Swift’s Stone Corral
    2. Letts Valley
    3. Colusa County Courthouse

  • Contra Costa

    1. John Muir Home
    2. Castro Home
    3. Don Fernando Pacheco Adobe
    4. Joaquin Moraga Adobe
    5. Vicente Martinez Adobe
    6. Alvarado Adobe
    7. Don Salvio Pacheco Adobe
    8. Site of the Murder of Dr. John Marsh
    9. “The Old Homestead”
    10. Captain Pedro Fages Trail
    11. Mount Diablo
    12. Mount Diablo Coal Field
    13. Light Stations of California (Thematic), East Brother Light Station
    14. Site of Giant Powder Company (Point Pinole)
    15. Richmond Shipyard District

  • Del Norte

    1. S.S. Emidio
    2. Brother Jonathan Cemetery
    3. Fort Ter-Wer
    4. Camp Lincoln
    5. Crescent City Plank and Turnpike Road
    6. Site of Old Indian Village at Pebble Beach, Crescent City
    7. Battery Point Lighthouse

  • El Dorado

    1. Hangman’s Tree
    2. Studebaker’s Shop (Site of)
    3. Marshall Monument
    4. Marshall’s Blacksmith Shop
    5. Shingle Springs
    6. Old Dry Diggins – Old Hangtown – Placerville
    7. Georgetown
    8. El Dorado (Originally “Mud Springs”)
    9. Diamond Springs
    10. Greenwood
    11. Gold Discovery Site
    12. Site of California’s First Grange Hall
    13. Mormon Island
    14. Negro Hill
    15. Salmon Falls
    16. Condemned Bar
    17. Mormon Tavern-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    18. El Dorado-Nevada House (Mud Springs)-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    19. Placerville-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    20. Pleasant Grove House-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    21. Sportsman’s Hall-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    22. Moore’s (Riverton)-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    23. Webster’s (Sugar Loaf House)-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    24. Strawberry Valley House-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    25. Yank’s Station-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    26. Friday’s Station-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    27. Coloma Road-Rescue
    28. Coloma Road-Coloma
    29. Methodist Eposcopal Church
    30. Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony
    31. Site of Echo Summit
    32. Mountain Quarries Railroad Bridge

  • Fresno

    1. Arroyo De Cantua
    2. Fresno City
    3. Fort Miller
    4. Site of First Junior College in California
    5. Site of the Fresno Free Speech Fight of the Industrial Workers of the World
    6. Forestiere Underground Gardens
    7. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Fresno Assembly Center
    8. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Pinedale Assembly Center

  • Glenn

    1. Granville P. Swift Adobe
    2. Site of First Posted Water Notice By Will S. Green

  • Humbolt

    1. Trinidad Head
    2. Fort Humboldt
    3. The Old Arrow Tree
    4. Centerville Beach Cross
    5. Camp Curtis
    6. Town of Trinidad
    7. City of Eureka
    8. California’s First Drilled Oil Wells
    9. Jacoby Building
    10. Old Indian Village of Tsurai
    11. Arcata and Mad River Rail – Road Company
    12. Humboldt Harbor Historical District
    13. Ferndale

  • Imperial

    1. Tumco Mines
    2. Picacho Mines
    3. Mountain Springs Stage Station
    4. Mission De La Purisima Concepcion (Site Of)
    5. Hernando De Alarcon Expedition
    6. Fort Yuma
    7. Camp Salvation
    8. Plank Road
    9. Site of Mission San Pedro Y San Pablo De Bicuner
    10. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Desert Tower
    11. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Charley’s World of Lost Art
    12. Site of Fort Romulado Pacheco
    13. Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area – Camp Pilot Knob
    14. Yuha Well
    15. Tecolote Rancho

  • Inyo

    1. San Francis Ranch
    2. Site of Bend City
    3. Mayfield Canyon Battle Ground
    4. Site of Putnam’s Cabin
    5. Mary Austin’s Home
    6. First Permanent White Habitation in Owens Valley
    7. Camp Independence (Fort)
    8. Burned Wagons Point
    9. Death Valley Gateway
    10. Valley Wells
    11. Bennett-Arcane Long Camp
    12. Grave of 1872 Earthquake Victims
    13. Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns
    14. Furnace of the Owens Lake Silver-Lead Company
    15. Old Harmony Borax Works
    16. Farley’s Olancha Mill Site
    17. Bishop Creek Battleground
    18. Old Stovepipe Wells
    19. Eichbaum Toll Road
    20. Manzanar Relocation Center
    21. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Manzanar Assembly Center
    22. Laws Narrow Gauge Railroad Station and Yard

  • Kern

    1. Oak Creek Pass
    2. Keysville
    3. Walker’s Pass
    4. Havilah
    5. Fort Tejon
    6. Willow Springs
    7. Kernville
    8. Sebastian Indian Reservation
    9. Gordon’s Ferry on the Kern River
    10. Garces Circle
    11. Place Where Francisco Garces Crossed the Kern River
    12. Top of the Grapevine Pass, Where Don Pedro Fages Passed in 1772
    13. Discovery Well of Kern River Oilfield
    14. Fages-Zalvidea Crossing
    15. Rose Station
    16. Outermost Point in the South San Joaquin Valley (Visited by Padre Garces in 1776)
    17. Tulamniu Indian Site
    18. California Standard Oil Well No. 1
    19. Colonel Thomas Baker Memorial
    20. Indian Wells
    21. Desert Spring
    22. Lakeview Gusher No. 1
    23. Buttonwillow Tree
    24. Glennville Adobe
    25. McKittrick Brea Pit
    26. Buena Vista Refinery
    27. Tehachapi Loop
    28. Posey Station of Butterfield Overland Mail Lines
    29. Sinks of the Tejon, Also Known as Alamo, Station of Butterfield Overland Mail Lines
    30. Well “2-6”
    31. Kern River Slough Station
    32. Mountain House
    33. Garces Baptismal Site
    34. Old Town (Tehachapi)
    35. 20-Mule-Team Borax Terminus
    36. Point on the Jedediah Smith Trail
    37. Site of the Town of Garlock
    38. Lavers Crossing
    39. Site of the Last Home of Alexis Godey
    40. Site of the Home of Elisha Stevens
    41. Bealville
    42. Campsite of Edward M. Kern
    43. Caliente
    44. Freeman Junction
    45. Site of the Flight of the Gossamer Condor
    46. Rand Mining District
    47. Shafter Cotton Research Station
    48. Tomo Kahni

  • Kings

    1. El Adobe De Los Robles Rancho
    2. Location of the Famous Mussel Slough Tragedy
    3. Kingston

  • Lake

    1. Site of Stone and Kelsey Home
    2. The Battle of Bloody Island
    3. Sulphur Bank Mine
    4. Lower Lake Stone Jail
    5. Stone House
    6. St. Helena Toll Road and Bull Trail
    7. Old Lake County Courthouse

  • Lassen

    1. Roop’s Fort
    2. Peter Lassen Grave
    3. Noble Emigrant Trail, Susanville
    4. Noble Emigrant Trail
    5. Lassen Emigrant Trail
    6. Fort Janesville
    7. Lassen Emigrant Trail, Bieber

  • Los Angeles

    1. Casa De Governor Pio Pico
    2. Nuestra Senora La Reina De Los Angeles
    3. Avila Adobe
    4. Banning Park
    5. Brand Park (Memory Garden)
    6. Campo De Cahuenga
    7. Dominguez Ranchhouse
    8. Los Angeles Plaza
    9. Mission San Fernando Rey De Espana
    10. Mission San Gabriel Arcangel
    11. Pico House (Hotel)
    12. Plummer Park and Oldest House in Hollywood
    13. Site of Mission Vieja
    14. La Mesa Battlefield
    15. Oak of the Golden Dream
    16. Drum Barracks
    17. Hancock Park La Brea
    18. Merced Theatre
    19. Pioneer Oil Refinery
    20. Casa Adobe De San Rafael
    21. First Home of Pomona College
    22. Lugo Adobe (Site Of)
    23. Old Mill
    24. Romulo Pico Adobe (Ranchito Romulo)
    25. Centinela Springs
    26. E. J. Baldwin’s Queen Anne Cottage
    27. Hugo Reed Adobe
    28. Adobe De Palomares
    29. Old Salt Lake
    30. Site of Home of Diego Sepulveda
    31. Site of Old Whaling Station
    32. Site of Adobe Home of Jose Dolores Sepulveda
    33. Timms’ Point and Landing
    34. Rio San Gabriel Battlefield
    35. La Casa De Carrion
    36. The Ortega-Vigare Adobe
    37. Pomona Water Power Plant
    38. Well No. “CSO” 4 (Pico No. 4)
    39. Mentryville
    40. Serra Springs
    41. Lummis Home
    42. Original Building of the University of Southern California
    43. Cecil B. DeMille Studio Barn
    44. Rancho San Francisco
    45. St. Vincent’s Place
    46. Well “Alamitos 1”
    47. Lang
    48. “Old Short Cut”
    49. Catalina Adobe
    50. Grave of George Caralambo, “Greek George”
    51. The Cascades
    52. Portola Trail Campsite (No. 1)
    53. Bella Union Hotel Site
    54. Western Hotel
    55. “Heritage House”
    56. Portola Trail Campsite (No. 2)
    57. Governor Stoneman Adobe, “Los Robles”
    58. Paradox Hybrid Walnut Tree
    59. Lyons Station Stagecoach Stop
    60. Los Encinos State Historic Park
    61. Griffith Ranch
    62. Site of the Initial United States Air Meet
    63. Old Plaza Firehouse
    64. The Mirror Building (Site of Butterfield Stage Station)
    65. San Fernando Cemetery
    66. Site of the Los Angeles Star
    67. First Jewish Site in Los Angeles
    68. Old Santa Monica Forestry Station
    69. The Gamble House
    70. Workman Home and Family Cemetery
    71. Site of “Port Los Angeles” Long Wharf
    72. Pasadena Playhouse
    73. S.S. Catalina
    74. Chatsworth Calera Site
    75. Glendora Bougainvillea
    76. St. Francis Dam Disaster Site
    77. Casa De San Pedro
    78. Site of Llano Del Rio Cooperative Colony
    79. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Santa Anita Assembly Center
    80. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Pomona Assembly Center
    81. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Old Trapper’s Lodge
    82. “Reform School for Juvenile Offenders” (Fred C. Nelles School)
    83. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
    84. Harold Lloyd Estate (“Greenacres”)
    85. The Mojave Road
    86. Point Dume
    87. Adamson House at Malibu Lagoon State Beach
    88. Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center
    89. El Monte – First Southern California Settlement by Immigrants from United States
    90. Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site
    91. Casa De Rancho San Antonio (Henry Gage Mansion)
    92. Pacific Asia Museum (Grace Nicholson’s Treasure House of Oriental and Western Art)
    93. Christmas Tree Lane
    94. Watts Towers of Simon Rodia
    95. Tuna Club of Avalon
    96. Beale’s Cut Stagecoach Pass
    97. Frank Lloyd Wright Textile Block House (Thematic), Freeman House
    98. Frank Lloyd Wright Textile Block House (Thematic), Ennis House
    99. Long Beach Marine Stadium
    100. Manhattan Beach State Pier
    101. Liberty Hill
    102. Paramount Hay Tree
    103. Beach Boys’ Home
    104. Savannah Memorial Park
    105. The Angeles National Forest

  • Madera

    1. California Native American Ceremonial Roundhouses (Thematic), Wassama Roundhouse

  • Marin

    1. First Sawmill in Marin County
    2. Oldest House North of San Francisco Bay
    3. Mission San Rafael Arcangel
    4. Site of the Lighter Wharf at Bolinas
    5. Lime Kilns
    6. Angel Island
    7. Pioneer Paper Mill
    8. St. VIncent’s School for Boys
    9. Home of Lord Charles Snowden Fairfax
    10. Green Brae Brick Kiln
    11. Outdoor Art Club
    12. China Camp
    13. Marin County Civic Center
    14. Golden Gate Bridge

  • Mariposa

    1. Mormon Bar
    2. Bear Valley
    3. Coulterville
    4. Hornitos
    5. Agua Fria
    6. Savage Trading Post
    7. Mariposa County Courthouse
    8. Yosemite Valley

  • Mendocino

    1. Squaw Rock
    2. Fort Bragg
    3. Round Valley
    4. Mendocino Presbyterian Church
    5. Sun House
    6. Temple of Kwan Tai
    7. Ukiah Vichy Springs Resort
    8. Point Arena Lighthouse

  • Merced

    1. Snelling Couthouse
    2. Canal Farm Inn
    3. Los Banos
    4. Pacheco Pass
    5. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Merced Assembly Center

  • Modoc

    1. Fremont Camp
    2. Bloody Point
    3. Cressler and Bonner Trading Post, 1865
    4. Bonner Grade
    5. Infernal Caverns Battleground, 1867
    6. Battle of Land’s Ranch – 1872
    7. Chimney Rock
    8. Old Emigrant Trail
    9. Evans and Bailey Fight – 1861
    10. Fort Bidwell
    11. Applegate-Lassen Emigrant Trail (Fandango Pass)
    12. Tule Lake Relocation Center

  • Mono

    1. Bodie
    2. Dog Town
    3. Trail of the John C. Fremont 1844 Expedition

  • Monterey

    1. Custom House
    2. Royal Presidio Chapel of San Carlos Borromeo
    3. Larkin House
    4. Colton Hall
    5. Landing Place of Sebastian Vizcaino and Fray Junipero Serra
    6. Mission San Carlos Borromeo De Carmelo
    7. First Theater in California
    8. Mission San Antonio De Padua
    9. Mission Nuestra Senora De La Soledad
    10. House of Governor Alvarado
    11. Vasquez House
    12. Robert Louis Stevenson House
    13. House of Four Winds
    14. Old Pacific House
    15. “The Glass House,” Casa Materna of the Vallejos
    16. Richardson Adobe
    17. Casa De Oro
    18. Hill Town Ferry
    19. Site of the Battle of Navidad
    20. Soberanes Adobe
    21. Guiterrez Adobe
    22. Chautauqua Hall
    23. Jose Eusebio Boronda Adobe Casa
    24. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Salinas Assembly Center
    25. Light Stations of California (Thematic), Point Sur Light Station
    26. Asilomar State Beach and Conference Grounds

  • Napa

    1. Old Bale Mill
    2. Chiles Mill
    3. Schramsberg
    4. Charles Krug Winery
    5. George Yount Blockhouse
    6. Site of York’s Cabin, Calistoga
    7. Site of Hudson Cabin, Calistoga
    8. Sam Brannan Store, Calistoga
    9. Sam Brannan Cottage, Calistoga
    10. Site of Kelsey House, Calistoga
    11. Napa Valley Railroad Depot, Calistoga
    12. Grave of George C. Yount
    13. Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
    14. Beringer Brothers Winery
    15. Veterans Home of California
    16. First Presbyterian Church Building
    17. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Litto

  • Nevada

    1. Donner Monument (or) Pioneer Monument
    2. The World’s First Long-Distance Telephone Line
    3. Home of Lola Montez
    4. Home of Lotta Crabtree
    5. The Little Town of Rough and Ready
    6. Site of One of the First Discoveries of Quartz Gold in California
    7. Empire Mine
    8. Bridgeport (Nyes Crossing) Covered Bridge
    9. Alpha Hydraulic Diggings and Townsite
    10. Omega Hydraulic Diggings and Townsite
    11. First Transcontinental Railroad – Truckee
    12. Overland Emigrant Trail
    13. South Yuba Canal Office
    14. North Star Mine Powerhouse
    15. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company
    16. Mount Saint Mary’s Convent and Academy
    17. Nevada Theatre
    18. National Hotel
    19. Holbrooke Hotel
    20. First Manufacturing Site of the Pelton Wheel

  • Orange

    1. North Gate of City of Anaheim
    2. Dana Point
    3. Old Landing
    4. The Serrano Adobe
    5. Mission San Juan Capistrano
    6. Pioneer House of the Mother Colony
    7. Silverado
    8. Red Hill
    9. Old Santa Ana
    10. Modjeska’s Home
    11. Black Star Canyon Indian Village Site
    12. Barton Mound
    13. Anaheim Landing
    14. Flores Peak
    15. Don Bernardo Yorba Ranchhouse Site
    16. Diego Sepulveda Adobe
    17. Carbondale
    18. Old Maizeland School (Rivera School)
    19. Site of First Water-to-Water Flight
    20. McFadden Wharf
    21. Orange County’s Original Courthouse
    22. Olinda
    23. Balboa Pavillion
    24. Old Town Irvine
    25. Richard Nixon Birthplace
    26. Crystal Cove Historic District

  • Placer

    1. Town of Dutch Flat
    2. Yankee Jim’s
    3. Town of Forest Hill
    4. Virginiatown
    5. Iowa Hill
    6. Town of Michigan Bluff
    7. Emigrant Gap
    8. City of Auburn
    9. Town of Gold Run
    10. Ophir
    11. Pioneer Express Trail
    12. Pioneer Ski Area of America, Squaw Valley
    13. First Transcontinental Railroad – Roseville
    14. First Transcontinental Railroad – Rocklin
    15. First Transcontinental Railroad – Newcastle
    16. First Transcontinental Railroad – Auburn
    17. First Transcontinental Railroad – Colfax
    18. First Transcontinental Railroad – Cape Horn Promontory
    19. Lake Tahoe Outlet Gates
    20. Overland Emigrant Trail
    21. Griffith Quarry

  • Plumas

    1. Peter Lassen Marker (Site of Lassen Trading Post)
    2. Jamison City, Eureka Mills, Johnstown, and the Famous Eureka Mine
    3. Buck’s Lake
    4. Pioneer Grave (Grizzly Creek)
    5. Rabbit Creek Hotel Monument
    6. Elizabethtown
    7. Beckwourth Pass
    8. Rich Bar
    9. Site of American Ranch and Hotel
    10. Site of Plumas House
    11. Spanish Ranch and Meadow Valley
    12. Pioneer Schoolhouse
    13. Pioneer Ski Area of America, Johnsville

  • Riverside

    1. Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree
    2. Giant Desert Figures
    3. Site of Louis Rubidoux House
    4. Site of De Anza Camp, March 1774
    5. Site of Indian Village of Pochea
    6. Serrano Boulder
    7. Serrano Tanning Vats
    8. Carved Rock
    9. Butterfield Stage Station
    10. Painted Rock
    11. Ruins of Third Serrano Adobe
    12. Site of Rubidoux Grist Mill
    13. Hemet Maze Stone
    14. Old Temescal Road
    15. Corona Founders Monument
    16. Saahatpa
    17. Mission Inn
    18. De Anza Crossing of the Santa Ana River, 1775 and 1776
    19. Cornelius and Mercedes Jenson Ranch
    20. Site of Blythe Intake
    21. Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area – Camp Young
    22. Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area – Camp Granite
    23. Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area – Camp Coxcomb
    24. Soviet Transpolar Landing Site
    25. Site of Contractor’s General Hospital
    26. Site of Santa Rosa Rancho
    27. Ramona Bowl, Site of the Ramona Pageant

  • Sacramento

    1. Pioneer Telegraph Station
    2. Site of Grist Mill Built by Jared Dixon Sheldon, 1846-47
    3. Prarie City
    4. Michigan Bar
    5. Sutter’s Fort
    6. California’s First Passenger Railroad
    7. Terminal of California’s First Passenger Railroad
    8. Sacramento City Cemetery
    9. Sloughhouse
    10. Sutter’s Landing
    11. New Helvetia Cemetery
    12. Sutterville
    13. Site of China Slough
    14. Eagle Theater
    15. Site of Home of Newton Booth
    16. What Cheer House
    17. Site of Stage and Railroad (First)
    18. E.B. Crocker Art Gallery
    19. Headquarters of the “Big Four”
    20. Western Hotel
    21. Ebner’s Hotel
    22. Lady Adams Building
    23. Site of Sam Brannan House
    24. Site of Sacramento Union
    25. B.F. Hastings Building
    26. Adams and Company Building
    27. Site of Orleans Hotel
    28. D.O. Mills Bank Building
    29. Overton Building
    30. Original Sacramento Bee Building
    31. Pioneer Mutual Volunteer Firehouse
    32. Site of Congregational Church
    33. Stanford-Lathrop Home
    34. Old Folsom Powerhouse
    35. Old Folsom Powerhouse – Sacramento Station A
    36. Site of the First Jewish Synagogue Owned by a Congregation on the Pacific Coast
    37. Chevra Kaddisha (Home of Peace Cemetery)
    38. Grave of Alexander Hamilton Willard
    39. Camp Union, Sutterville
    40. Murphy’s Ranch
    41. Five Mile House-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    42. Fifteen Mile House-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    43. Folsom-Overland Pony Express Route in California
    44. Grave of Elitha Cumi Donner Wilder
    45. Coloma Road-Sutter’s Fort
    46. Coloma Road-Nimbus Dam
    47. First Transcontinental Railroad
    48. First Transcontinental Railroad – Western Base of the Sierra Nevada
    49. Old Sacramento
    50. Site of First County Free Library Branch California
    51. Governor’s Mansion
    52. Site of First and Second State Capitols at Sacramento
    53. California’s Capitol Complex
    54. Nisipowinan Village Site
    55. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Sacramento Assembly Center
    56. California Almond Growers Exchange Processing Facility
    57. State Indian Museum
    58. Site of the First African American Episcopal Church Established on the Pacific Coast

     

  • San Benito

    1. Castro House
    2. Plaza Hotel
    3. Fremont Peak
    4. Mission San Juan Bautista and Plaza
    5. New Idira Mine

  • San Bernardino

    1. San Bernadino Asistencia
    2. The Zanja
    3. Site of Mormon Stockade
    4. Guachama Rancheria
    5. Mormon Road
    6. Yorba-Slaughter Adobe
    7. Tapia Adobe (Site of)
    8. Cucamonga Rancho Winery
    9. Yucaipa Adobe
    10. Sycamore Grove
    11. Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trail Monument
    12. Mormon Trail Monument
    13. Stoddard-Waite Monument
    14. Daley Toll Road Monument
    15. Fort Benson
    16. Garces-Smith Monument
    17. Holcomb Valley
    18. Yucaipa Rancheria
    19. Harry Wade Exit Route
    20. Union Square
    21. Old Bear Valley Dam
    22. Chimney Rock
    23. Searles Lake Borax Discovery
    24. National Old Trails Monument
    25. Town of Calico
    26. Von Schmidt State Boundary Monument
    27. Harvey House
    28. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Possum Trot
    29. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Hula Ville
    30. Site of the Rancho Chino Adobe of Isaac Williams
    31. United States Rabbit Experimental Station
    32. The Mojave Road
    33. Camp Cady (On the Mojave Road)
    34. The Arrowhead
    35. Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area – Camp Iron Mountain
    36. Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area – Camp Clipper
    37. Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area – Camp Ibis
    38. A.K. Smiley Public Library
    39. Kimberly Crest
    40. Madonna of the Trails

  • San Diego

    1. Adobe Chapel of the Immaculate Conception
    2. Ballast Point Whaling Station Site
    3. Old Point Loma Lighthouse
    4. Mission Dam and Flume
    5. Casa De Estudillo
    6. Fort Stockton
    7. Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
    8. Cabrillo Landing Site
    9. La Punta De Los Muertos
    10. San Diego Presidio Site
    11. Casa De Lopez
    12. Old La Playa
    13. Fort Rosecrans
    14. Plaza, San Diego Viejo (Washington Square)
    15. “Old Landing,” Site of El Desembarcadero
    16. The Whaley House
    17. Congress Hall Site
    18. “Serra Palm” (Site)
    19. El Campo Santo
    20. Site of Fort Guijarros
    21. Casa De Perdorena
    22. Casa De Machado
    23. Casa De Bandini
    24. Casa De Stewart
    25. Casa De Carrillo
    26. Site of Casa De Cota
    27. Mission San Luis Rey De Francia
    28. Mission San Diego de Alcala
    29. Asistencia De San Antonio
    30. Derby Dike
    31. Vallecito Stage Depot (Station)
    32. Warner’s Ranch
    33. Chapel of Santa Ysabel (Site Of)
    34. Campo Stone Store
    35. Julian
    36. La Canada De Los Coches Rancho
    37. Mule Hill
    38. Box Canyon
    39. Camp Wright
    40. The Exchange Hotel
    41. Oak Grove Stage Station
    42. San Diego Barracks
    43. San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park
    44. First Publicly Owned School Building
    45. La Christianita
    46. Las Flores Asistencia
    47. Bancroft Ranch House
    48. El Vado
    49. Los Puertocitos
    50. Palm Springs
    51. Butterfield Overland Mail Route
    52. San Gregorio
    53. Montgomery Memorial
    54. Peg Leg Smith Monument
    55. Site of the Kate O. Sessions Nursery
    56. El Camino Real (As Father Serra Knew It and Helped Blaze It)
    57. Santa Catarina
    58. San Felipe Valley and Stage Station
    59. San Diego State College, Site of First Doctorate Degree Granted by the California State College System
    60. First Military Flying School in America
    61. Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
    62. Hotel Del Coronado
    63. Pedro Fages Trail
    64. Spanish Landing
    65. Rancho Guajome
    66. Historic Planned Community of Rancho Santa Fe
    67. Leo Carrillo Ranch (Rancho De Los Kiotes)
    68. National City Depot
    69. Santa Margarita Ranch House
    70. Star of India
    71. Ferryboat Berkeley
    72. USS Recruit
    73. Giant Dipper Roller Coaster
    74. Camp Lockett

  • San Francisco

    1. Presidio of San Francisco
    2. Montgomery Block
    3. Landing Place of Captain J.B. Montgomery
    4. Castillo De San Joaquin
    5. Shoreline Markers
    6. Rincon Hill
    7. Office of the Star Newspaper
    8. California Theatre
    9. Site of First U.S. Branch Mint in California
    10. Niantic Hotel (Building)
    11. Site of Parrott Granite Block
    12. Fort Gunnybags
    13. Telegraph Hill
    14. Portsmouth Plaza
    15. Agua Mansa
    16. “El Dorado,” “Parker House,” and “Dennison’s Exchange”
    17. Entrance of the San Carlos into San Francisco Bay
    18. Mission San Francisco De Asis (Mission Dolores)
    19. Site of Original Mission Dolores Chapel and Dolores Lagoon
    20. Long Wharf
    21. Site of the First Meeting of Freemasons Held in California
    22. Lucas, Turner & Co. Bank (Sherman’s Bank)
    23. Woodward’s Gardens
    24. Site of Brick Building of the Firm of Mellus and Howard
    25. Site of First Jewish Religious Services in San Francisco
    26. Eastern Terminus of Clay Street Hill Railroad
    27. First Public School
    28. Site of What Cheer House
    29. Sarcophagus of Thomas Starr King
    30. Western Business Headquarters of Russell, Majors, and Waddell – Founders, Owners, and Operators of the Pony Express
    31. Site of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art
    32. Site of Laurel Hill Cemetery
    33. Original Site of St. Mary’s College
    34. El Camino Real (As Father Serra Knew It and Helped Blaze It)
    35. Original Site of Bancroft Library
    36. Site of Old St. Mary’s Church
    37. Hudson’s Bay Company Headquarters
    38. The Conservatory
    39. Site of First California State Fair
    40. Old United States Mint
    41. City of Paris Building
    42. Site of the Invention of the Three-Bell Slot Machine
    43. Farnsworth’s Green Street Lab
    44. Birthplace of the United Nations, War Memorial Complex
    45. Treasure Island – Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-40
    46. Site of the First Dynamite Factory in United States
    47. Original Site of the Third Baptist Church (Formerly the First Colored Baptist Church)
    48. Juana Briones

  • San Joaquin

    1. Benson’s Ferry
    2. Lone Star Mill
    3. Site of Mokelumne City
    4. Site of Wood’s Ferry and Wood’s Bridge
    5. Weber Point
    6. Site of First Building in Present City of Stockton
    7. Site of Battle Between Forces Under General Vallejo and San Joaquin Valley Indians
    8. Town of Woodbridge
    9. Lockeford (Locke’s Ford)
    10. New Hope
    11. First Landing Place of Sailing Launch Comet
    12. Burial Place of John Brown (Juan Flaco)
    13. San Joaquin Valley College
    14. French Camp
    15. Carnegie
    16. Corral Hollow
    17. Temple Israel Cemetery
    18. Site of San Joaquin City
    19. First Transcontinental Railroad – Site of Completion of Pacific Railroad
    20. Reuel Colt Gridley Monument
    21. Lodi Arch
    22. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Stockton Assembly Center
    23. California Chicory Works
    24. Trail of the John C. Fremont 1844 Expedition
    25. Stockton Developmental Center
    26. Sikh Temple

  • San Luis Obispo

    1. Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa
    2. Mission San Miguel Arcangel
    3. Santa Margarita Asistencia (Site Of)
    4. Estrella Adobe Church
    5. Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument
    6. Dallidet Adobe
    7. The Sebastian Store
    8. Ah Louis Store
    9. Morro Rock
    10. Rios-Caledonia Adobe
    11. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Nitt Witt Ridge
    12. Administration and Veteran’s Memorial Building
    13. Rancho Nipomo

  • San Mateo

    1. Portola Journey’s End
    2. Broderick-Terry Dueling Place
    3. Portola Expedition Camp
    4. Portola Expedition Camp
    5. Portola Expedition Camp
    6. Portola Expedition Camp
    7. Portola Expedition Camp
    8. Portola Expedition Camp
    9. Portola Expedition Camp
    10. Anza Expedition Camp
    11. Anza Expedition Camp
    12. Portola Expedition Camp
    13. Woodside Store
    14. Portola Expedition Camp
    15. Old Store at La Honda
    16. Tunitas Beach, Indian Village Site on Portola Route
    17. Sanchez Adobe
    18. “The Hospice” (Outpost of Mission Dolores)
    19. Site of the Discovery of San Francisco Bay
    20. Site of the Former Village of Searsville
    21. Site of San Mateo Couty’s First Sawmill
    22. Union Cemetery
    23. Casa De Tableta
    24. Burlingame Railroad Station
    25. Ralston Hall
    26. Carolands
    27. Steele Brothers Dairy Ranches
    28. Filoli
    29. Our Lady of the Wayside
    30. Pigeon Point Lighthouse
    31. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Tanforan Assembly Center
    32. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Capidro
    33. First Congregational Church of Pescadero
    34. Menlo Park Railroad Station

  • Santa Barbara

    1. Gaviota Pass
    2. Mission Santa Ines
    3. Burton Mound
    4. Casa De La Guerra
    5. Covarrubias Adobe
    6. Mission Santa Barbara
    7. Mission La Purisima
    8. Old Lobero Theatre
    9. Carpinteria and Indian Village of Mishopshnow
    10. Hastings Adobe
    11. Well “Hill 4”
    12. Royal Spanish Presidio
    13. Carrillo Adobe
    14. Chapel of San Ramon
    15. Site of Original Mission and Remaining Ruins of Buildings of Mission De La Purisima Concepcion De Maria Santisima
    16. Santa Barbara County Court Complex

  • Santa Clara

    1. Old Adobe Woman’s Club
    2. Old Sites of Mission Santa Clara De Asis and Old Spanish Bridge
    3. Vasquez Tree and Site of 21-Mile House
    4. Santa Clara Campaign Treaty Site
    5. Mission Santa Clara
    6. New Almaden Mine
    7. New Almaden Mine
    8. Edwin Markham Home
    9. First Normal School in California (San Jose State College)
    10. First Site of El Pueblo De San Jose De Guadalupe
    11. Site of “City Gardens” – Nursery of Louis Pellier
    12. Saratoga
    13. Gubserville
    14. Patchen
    15. Forbes Flour Mill
    16. Site of California’s First State Capitol
    17. Moreland School
    18. Almaden Vineyards
    19. Site of Juana Briones De Miranda Home on Rancho La Purisima Concepcion
    20. Martin Murphy Home and Estate (Site)
    21. Paul Masson Mountain Winery
    22. Arroyo De San Joseph Cupertino
    23. Montgomery Hill
    24. Eadweard Muybridge and the Development of Motion Pictures
    25. Pioneer Electronics Research Laboratory
    26. Old Post Office
    27. John Adams Squire House
    28. Luis Maria Peralta Adobe
    29. Winchester House
    30. Hayes Mansion
    31. Hostess House
    32. Roberto-Sunol Adobe
    33. First Unitarian Church of San Jose
    34. Kotani-En
    35. Charles Copeland Morse Residence
    36. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
    37. Lou Henry Hoover House
    38. First Successful Introduction of the Honeybee to California
    39. Site of World’s First Broadcasting Station
    40. Home Site of Sarah Wallis
    41. Birthplace of “Silicon Valley”
    42. Site of Invention of the First Commercially Practicable Integrated Circuit
    43. Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs Resort
    44. Guadalupe Mission of San Jose

  • Santa Cruz

    1. Site of Mission Santa Cruz
    2. Glenwood
    3. Site of Center of Villa De Branciforte
    4. Felton Covered Bridge
    5. Big Basin Redwoods State Park
    6. Superintndent’s Office
    7. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
    8. Rancho San Andres Castro Adobe
    9. The Mystery Spot

  • Shasta

    1. Reading Adobe
    2. Noble Pass Route
    3. Reading’s Bar
    4. Southern’s Stage Station
    5. Old California-Oregon Road
    6. Old Town of Shasta
    7. Clear Creek
    8. Battle Rock
    9. Dersch Homestead
    10. Whiskeytown
    11. Bass Hill
    12. French Gulch
    13. Fort Crook (Site Of)
    14. Pioneer Baby’s Grave
    15. Fort Reading
    16. Father Rinaldi’s Foundation of 1856
    17. Bell’s Bridge
    18. Lockhart Ferry
    19. Site of First School in Fall River Valley

  • Sierra

    1. Henness Pass Road
    2. Plum Valley House
    3. Sierra County Sheriff’s Gallows

  • Siskiyou

    1. Captain Jack’s Stronghold
    2. Guillem’s Graveyard
    3. Canby’s Cross – 1873
    4. Site of Fort Jones
    5. Strawberry Valley Stage Station
    6. Emigrant Trail Crossing of Present Highway
    7. West Miner Street – Third Street Historic District, Yreka

  • Solano

    1. Benicia Capitol
    2. First Building Erected in California by Masonic Lodge for Use as a Hall
    3. Site of First Protestant Church
    4. Benicia Arsenal
    5. Site of Former Benicia Barracks
    6. Vaca-Pena Adobe
    7. Site of State Capitol at Vallejo
    8. First U.S. Naval Station in the Pacific
    9. Rockville Stone Chapel
    10. Benicia Seminary
    11. University of California Experimental Farm, Wolfskill Grant
    12. Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church
    13. Fischer-Hanlon House
    14. Turner/Robertson Shipyard, 1883-1918

  • Sonoma

    1. Mission San Francisco Solano
    2. General M.G. Vallejo Home
    3. Fort Ross
    4. Bear Flag Monument
    5. Blue Wing Inn
    6. Petaluma Adobe
    7. Luther Burbank Home and Garden
    8. Temelec Hall
    9. Presidio of Sonoma (Sonoma Barracks)
    10. Buena Vista Winery and Vineyards
    11. Site of Haraszthy Villa
    12. Swiss Hotel
    13. Salvador Vallejo Adobe
    14. Italian Swiss Colony
    15. Union Hotel and Union Hall
    16. Nash Adobe
    17. Hood House
    18. Vineyard and Winery (San Francisco Solano Mission Vineyard)
    19. Jack London State Historic Park
    20. St. Teresa’s Church
    21. Bodega Bay and Harbor
    22. Cooper’s Sawmill
    23. Cotati Downtown Plaza
    24. Walters Ranch Hop Kiln
    25. Petrified Forest
    26. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – John Medica Gardens
    27. Icaria-Speranza Commune

  • Stanislaus

    Knight’s Ferry

    1. La Grange
    2. The Williams Ranch
    3. Empire City
    4. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Turlock Assembly Center

  • Sutter

    1. Hock Farm (Site Of)
    2. Site of Propagation of the Thompson Seedless Grape

  • Tehama

    1. Residence of General William B. Ide
    2. Home of Mrs. John Brown
    3. First Tehama County Courthouse
    4. Indian Military Post, Nomi Lackee Indian Reservation

  • Trinity

    1. Weaverville Joss House
    2. La Grange Mine (Hydraulic)
    3. First Tule River Indian Reservation

  • Tulare

    1. Kaweah Post Office, Kaweah Colony
    2. Charter Oak or Election Tree
    3. Tailholt
    4. Butterfield Stage Route
    5. Tule River Stage Station
    6. Fountain Springs
    7. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Tulare Assembly Center
    8. Allensworth

  • Tuolumne

    1. Montezuma
    2. Columbia
    3. Tuttletown
    4. Mark Twain Cabin
    5. St. James Episcopal Church
    6. Wells Fargo Express Company Building
    7. Shaw’s Flat
    8. Big Oak Flat
    9. Summersville (Tuolumne)
    10. Jacksonville
    11. Soulsbyville
    12. Sonora-Mono Road
    13. Chinese Camp
    14. Sawmill Flat
    15. Jamestown
    16. Springfield
    17. Parrott’s Ferry
    18. Cherokee
    19. Groveland
    20. Second Garrote
    21. Sierra Railway Shops

  • Ventura

    1. Site of Junipero Serra’s Cross
    2. Old Mission Reservoir
    3. San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct
    4. Olivas Adobe
    5. Mission San Buenaventura
    6. Rancho Camulos
    7. Warring Park
    8. Stagecoach Inn
    9. Portola Expedition
    10. Sycamore Tree
    11. Ventura County Courthouse
    12. Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments – Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village
    13. Rancho Simi
    14. Union Oil Company Building

  • Yolo

    1. Woodland Opera House
    2. Gable Mansion
    3. First Pacific Coast Salmon Cannery

  • Yuba

    1. Timbuctoo
    2. Smartsville
    3. Johnson’s Ranch
    4. Overland Emigrant Trail
    5. Bok Kai Temple
    6. Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans – Marysville Assembly Center
    7. Site of the Wheatland Hop Riot of 1913

Source: California Parks and Rec database

 

 

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