Roop’s Fort

Earlier this month, in my continuing quest to photograph as many California Historical Landmarks as possible, I drove for nearly an hour from Eagle Lake to Susanville. I was searching for three sites in particular; the first was Peter Lassen’s grave, and the second was Roop’s Fort. Unfortunately, by the time I arrived at what is now Memorial Park, it […]

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Historic street corners

There are a total of 48 historical markers in and around the city of San Francisco, and while I’ve certainly visited the sites of a few of them (Telegraph Hill, Portsmouth Plaza, Fort Point), I’m not sure why it took me so long to purposely go in search of them. On my way out of the city last Friday, I […]

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