The famous race of the Confidence and the Queen City, while not featured by gunfire, nearly ended in flames so far as the latter vessel was concerned. The Confidence, of California Steam, burned Philadelphia coal, imported at some expense; the Queen City, which belonged to the Marysville outfit, depended upon the cheaper and more plentiful local supply of wood. So […]
Kitchen, bakery, and millstones: The interior rooms, probably finished in 1842/43, contained a large kitchen to feed the dozens of fur trappers, tradesmen, and others who lived there or frequently visited — California’s Olden Golden Days blog
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. This topic is fairly self-explanatory. Let’s see how creative you can get with this topic. I’m looking forward to what you all decide to post.
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Letter L – Needs to start with the letter L and have at least two syllables. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge. Have fun with this week’s challenge.
Here are a couple of images (taken at the Sacramento History Museum) that I forgot to include with my post on Monday, Exploring Sutter’s Fort, Part 3.
This week I wanted to share an episode from California’s Golden Parks, another series that Huell Houser created. This is another occasion when Huell gets a chance to go a bit deeper and see things most visitors might never get a chance to see and hear stories that don’t often get told. In fact, as you’ll see in the episode, […]
The guns at Sutter’s Fort, mostly used to make a strong impression on the locals, were a varied collection drawn from passing ships and from the Russians at Fort Ross in what is now Sonoma County. The armament, as early as 1842, consisted of two brass fieldpieces and a dozen or more iron guns of different kinds brought from Hawaii […]
Fort Ross, March 2003 — After I posted pictures last Monday of our trip to the coast in January 2003, I found more images already on my hard drive that I’d forgotten about, from a visit two months later. We had cool but sunny weather in March — and there was time to see the inside of historic Fort Ross […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Needs to start with the letter I. If you have a photo of an igloo this challenge is perfect for you. All you need this week is a topic that starts with the letter I. Or for those who have a hard time with the letter I, you may also use […]