List of California Historical Landmarks
This is a list of California Historical Landmarks. The official list may be seen at http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21387.
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- Alameda Terminal of the First Transcontinental Railroad (#440), now located within Naval Air Station Alameda
- Berkeley Women's City Club (#908)
- Site of Blossom Rock navigation trees, Redwood Regional Park (#962), used to help ships avoid a submerged rock near Yerba Buena Island
- Francisco Solano Alviso Adobe (#510), the first adobe house to be built in the Pleasanton Valley
- Camino of Rancho San Antonio (#299), Oakland
- Site of the China Clipper flight departure (#968)
- Church of St. James the Apostle (#694), founded under authority of Bishop Kip, first Episcopal Bishop for California, this church in Oakland has provided uninterrupted service since June 27, 1858
- Site of College of California (#45), original site of the University of California
- Site of first county courthouse (#503), in Union City.
- Concannon Vineyard (#641), founded by James Concannon
- Cresta Blanca Winery (#586), founded by Charles Wetmore
- Croll Building (#954), pivotal in the development of boxing in California
- Emeryville Shellmound (#335)
- Estudillo Home (#279), home of José Joaquín Estudillo, founder of the city of San Leandro
- First Unitarian Church of Oakland (#896)
- Leland Stanford Winery (#642), founded by Leland Stanford
- Livermore Memorial Monument (#241), marking the hacienda of Robert Livermore, the first settler of the Livermore Valley
- Joaquin Miller Home (#107), home of the eccentric poet Joaquin Miller
- Mills Hall (#849), of Mills College
- Mission San José (#334)
- Paramount Theatre (#884), an ambitious Art Deco movie theater
- Pardee Home (#1027), home of former governor George Pardee
- Peralta Hacienda Site (#925), headquarters of Rancho San Antonio
- Peralta Home (#285), the first brick house built in Alameda County
- Piedmont Way (#986), designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, in Berkeley
- Rancho San Antonio (Peralta Grant) (#246), the 44,800-acre land grant to Don Luís María Peralta that encompasses the cities of San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, Berkeley, and Albany
- Site of the identification of the rainbow trout species, San Leandro Creek (#970)
- Site of first public school in Castro Valley (#776), part of the original Don Castro Land Grant and donated by Josiah Grover Brickell in 1866 for "educational purposes only"
- Site of Saint Mary's College of California (#676)
- San Leandro Oyster Beds (#824)
- Site of nation's first successful sugar beet factory (#768), founded by E.H. Dyer, "father of the American beet sugar industry," in Union City
- Ukrania (#1027), the homestead of Agapius Honcharenko
- University of California, Berkeley campus (#946)
- USS Hornet (CV-12) (#1029)
- Vallejo Flour Mill (#46)
- Wente Vineyards (#957), home of California's first varietal wine label, Sauvignon blanc
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- Kit Carson Marker (#315), at the summit of Carson Pass, marking where Carson carved his name into a tree in 1844 while guiding John C. Frémont through the Sierra Nevada. The original can be found at Sutter's Fort, Sacramento.
- Ebbetts Pass Route (#318), on the California Trail, discovered by John Ebbetts
- Old Emigrant Road (#661), near Caples Lake—This rough and circuitous section of the route to Placerville became obsolete in 1863 when a better route was blasted out of the face of the cliff at Carson Spur.
- Marklee's Cabin Site (#240), Markleeville, now the site of the Alpine County Courthouse
- Memorial to Pioneer Odd Fellows (#378)—On some large rocks near Carson Pass, a group of pioneers inscribed their names and the emblem of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1849.
- Pony Express Remount Station (#805), Woodfords, an official stop for five weeks starting April 4, 1860
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- Bidwell's Bar (#330), the second county seat of Butte County, now covered by Lake Oroville
- Bidwell Bar Bridge (#314), Oroville—the first suspension bridge in California
- Chico Forestry Station and Nursery (#840-2), Bidwell Park, Chico—one of the first forestry and nursery stations in the U.S., it operated from 1888 to 1903.
- Chinese Temple (#770), Oroville—temple of worship for over 10,000 Chinese residents
- Discovery site of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian (#809), Oroville
- Dogtown nugget discovery site (#771), Magalia, a 54-pound gold nugget
- Hooker Oak (#313), Chico—named after English botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. When it fell during a windstorm in 1977, it was estimated to be over a thousand years old; it was nearly a hundred feet tall and 29 feet in circumference eight feet from the ground. The largest branch measured 111 feet from trunk to tip and the circumference of outside branches was nearly five hundred feet.
- Oregon City (#807)
- Rancho Chico and Bidwell Adobe (#329), now Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park
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- Colusa County Courthouse (#890), the oldest remaining courthouse in the Sacramento Valley
- Letts Valley (#736)
- Swift's Stone Corral (#238), a corral made of stone by Granville P. Swift, a rancher in Stone Creek Valley
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- Battery Point Lighthouse (#951), one of the first lighthouses on the California coast
- Brother Jonathan Cemetery (#541), dedicated to those who lost their lives in the wreck of the Pacific Mail steamer Brother Jonathan
- Camp Lincoln (#545), abandoned United States military post
- Crescent City Turnpike (#645)
- SS Emidio (#497), first casualty of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force action on California's Pacific Coast
- Fort Ter-Wer (#544), abandoned United States military post
- Site of old Indian village at Pebble Beach, Crescent City (#649), one of the principal villages of the native Tolowa Indians
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- Granville P. Swift Adobe (#345), built by Granville P. Swift
- Site of first posted water notice by Will S. Green (#831) — On December 18, 1883, on an oak tree on the west bank of the Sacramento River immediately east of this spot, he posted the first water notice, stating that 500,000 miner's inches of river water was being diverted for irrigation of lands on the west side of the Sacramento Valley.
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- El Adobe de los Robles Rancho (#206), second oldest adobe in the San Joaquin Valley
- Kingston (#270)
- Location of the Famous Mussel Slough Tragedy (#245) — Hanford
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- The Battle of Bloody Island (#427), Upper Lake—Now a hill surrounded by reclaimed land, Bloody Island was where, in 1850, U.S. soldiers nearly annihilated the Indian inhabitants for the murder of two white men. Doubt exists of these Indians' guilt.
- Old Lake County Courthouse (#897)
- Lower Lake Stone Jail (#429), Lower Lake, said to be the smallest in the United States
- St. Helena Toll Road and Bull Trail (#467), Middletown—The toll road, completed in 1868, replaced the old bull trail from Napa Valley to Middletown, which was built by volunteers in the 1850s, and had grades up to 35 percent.
- Site of Stone and Kelsey Home (#426), Kelseyville—house built by ranchers Charles Stone and Andy Kelsey on land purchased from Salvador Vallejo. They forced Pomo Indians to do the construction work, causing much resentment. Finally, in the fall of 1849, the Pomo killed both Stone and Kelsey - their remains are buried beneath this monument.
- Stone House (#450), oldest building in Lake County
- Sulphur Bank Mine (#428), Clearlake Oaks
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- Casa de Governor Pio Pico/Home of Governor Pio Pico, (#127) in Whittier, home of one of the Mexican Governors of California
- La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles/the Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels (#144), in Los Angeles, dedicated on December 8, 1822
- Avila Adobe (#145), in Los Angeles, oldest existing house in Los Angeles, built circa 1818 by the mayor of the pueblo
- Banning Park (#147), in Wilmington, built by Phinneas Banning in the 1850s
- Brand Park/Memory Garden (#150), part of the original Mission San Fernando de Rey de España land grant
- Campo de Cahuenga (#151), in Los Angeles, site of the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga
- Domínguez Ranchhouse (#152), in Compton, site of the Battle of Domínguez Ranch in 1846
For more details, please see http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21428.
- Wassama Roundhouse (#1001)
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- Bodie (#341), a California Gold Rush mining town, now a ghost town
- Dog Town (#792), site of the first major gold rush to the eastern slope of California's Sierra Nevada
- Trail of the John C. Frémont 1844 expedition (#995-1), Toiyabe National Forest—While exploring and mapping the area of what is presently the western United States, Lt. John C. Frémont's party passed through northern Mono County during the last week of January, 1844. After passing through Mono County, Frémont passed over the Sierra Nevada and travelled to Sutter's Fort in the Sacramento Valley, where the party rested. To leave California the expedition headed south through the San Joaquin Valley, and then headed easterly to leave California by the Old Spanish Trail to Utah.
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- North gate of the City of Anaheim (#112)
- Anaheim Landing (#219), site of a port in operation for 15 years, in present day Seal Beach
- Balboa Pavilion (#959), one of the last surviving waterfront recreational pavilions in California
- Barton Mound (#218), site where Sheriff James Barton and three men from his posse were gunned down by fugitive Juan Flores
- Black Star Canyon Indian Village Site (#217)
- Carbondale (#228), site of an 1878 coal discovery
- The headland of Dana Point (#189), visited by R. H. Dana in 1835
- Flores Peak (#225), site in Modjeska Canyon where fugitive Juan Flores and his men were captured by General Andrés Pico and his posse
- Site of McFadden Wharf (#794), built in 1888 by the McFadden brothers, served as the seaward terminus of the Santa Ana and Newport Railway from 1891 to 1907
- Mission San Juan Capistrano (#200)
- Modjeska's Home (#205), home of Madame Modjeska, designed by Stanford White in 1888
- Richard Nixon Birthplace (#1015), birthplace of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, born in Yorba Linda in 1913
- Old Landing in Newport Beach (#198)
- Old Maizeland School (Rivera School) (#729), first school in the Rivera District, constructed in 1868
- Old Santa Ana (#204), this site in Orange was designated Santa Ana until the present city of Santa Ana was founded
- Old Town Irvine (#1004), founded in 1887 as the distribution and storage center of the 125,000 acre Irvine Ranch
- Orange County's Original Courthouse (#837), oldest existing county courthouse in Southern California, built between 1900 and 1901
- Olinda (#918), oil boomtown from Edward L. Doheny's first oil well in 1897 to the 1940s
- Pioneer house of the Mother Colony (#201), Anaheim's first house
- Red Hill (#203), a mining site in the 1890s in Santa Ana
- Diego Sepúlveda Adobe (#227), headquarters of Diego Sepúlveda, one-time owner of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana
- The Serrano Adobe (#199), part of Cañada de los Alisos granted to José Serrano in 1842 by Governor Alvarado
- Silverado (#202), a mining boomtown from 1878 through 1881
- Site of the first water-to-water flight (#775), in 1912, Glenn L. Martin flew his own plane from Balboa to Catalina
- Site of the Don Bernardo Yorba Ranchhouse (#226), in Yorba Linda
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- Site of Hock Farm (#346), first non-Indian settlement in Sutter County, established in 1841 by John Augustus Sutter (later of Sutter's Mill fame)
- Site of propagation of the Thompson Seedless grape (#929), developed by William Thompson in the 1870s
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- Home of Mrs. John Brown (#117), the widow of John Brown moved to Red Bluff with her children in 1864 and stayed there until 1870
- Residence of General William B. Ide (#12), first and only President of the California Republic (known as the Bear Flag Republic)
- Indian Military Post, Nomi Lackee Indian Reservation (#357), destination for the forced migration of "militant Indians", in operation from 1854 to the early or mid 1860s
- First Tehama County Courthouse (#183)
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- La Grange Mine (hydraulic) (#778), hydraulic gold mine, operated from 1862 to 1918
- Weaverville Joss House (#709), Chinese house of worship, built in 1874
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- Grandma Prisbey's Bottle Village (#939), Simi Valley
- Site of Junípero Serra's cross (#113), erected at the founding of the Mission San Buenaventura
- Mission San Buenaventura (#310)
- Mission San Buenaventura aqueduct (#114-1), which carried water from the Ventura River to the mission
- Old Mission Reservoir (#114), part of the water system for Mission San Buenaventura
- Olivas Adobe (#115), home of Don Raimundo Olivas, the only early two-story adobe in the valley
- Portolà Expedition (#727), at the junction of the Arroyo Mupu and Santa Paula Creek, in Santa Paula
- Rancho Camulos (#553), home of Antonio del Valle
- Rancho Simi (#979)
- Stagecoach Inn (#659), Newbury Park
- Sycamore Tree (#756), on California State Route 126, east of Santa Paula — John C. Frémont passed this tree on his way to sign a treaty with General Andrés Pico to secure California for annexation to the United States. The tree has served as a resting place, a polling place, a temporary post office, and an outdoor chapel.
- Union Oil Company Building (#996), birthplace of the Union Oil Company, Santa Paula
- Ventura County Courthouse (#847), an outstanding example of neo-classical architecture
- Warring Park (#624), site of a large village of Piru Indians, Piru
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- Gable Mansion (#864), home of Amos and Harvey Gable, Yolo County pioneer ranchers, built in 1885
- Woodland Opera House (#851), site of first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley, built in 1885; present structure built in 1895–1896
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- Bok Kai Temple (#889), built in 1888 to replace the first temple built in the early 1850s, this temple has been a Chinese community project since 1866
- Johnson's Ranch (#493), the first settlement in California reached by emigrant trains using the Emigrant Trail during the California Gold Rush, owned by William Johnson
- Overland Emigrant Trail (#799-3), used by an estimated 30,000 people to cross the Sierra Nevada into the gold fields in 1849
- Smartsville (#321), known for its churches
- Temporary detention camps for Japanese-Americans–Marysville Assembly Center (#934)
- Timbuctoo (#320), largest town in eastern Yuba County in 1855
- Site of the Wheatland Hop Riot of 1913 (#1003), a watershed event in California labor history