BURSON, CA -- June 19, 2010 -- Thanks partly to the efforts of the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH), remnants of the county's first courthouse, erected in Double Springs in 1850, will remain in West Calaveras.
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BURSON, CA -- January 7, 2010 -- The history of West Calaveras now has a home on the Internet. The Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH) has launched spwch.thesitemechanics.com as the group’s Website and the premier source on the Internet for historical information specifically about the area, which includes Valley Springs, Burson, Wallace and more. Among the site’s current highlights are the publication of a new, authoritative history of Valley Springs and an e-commerce shopping cart where consumers may purchase books, artwork and memorabilia related to W
BURSON, CA – November 12, 2009 – Did you know that the 1960s “Big Valley” TV series was inspired by a woman rancher in West Calaveras? Or that both the first and the most famous olive orchards in the entire region were in Wallace? How about Capt.
BURSON, CA – October 22, 2009 - The soldier believed to be the only African-American Civil War veteran buried in the Mother Lode will be honored in Calaveras County at a special ceremony at his gravesite for the first time. At 10 a.m., Saturday, November 7, the weekend before Veterans Day, the S
BURSON, CA -- February 11, 2009 -- Do you know that the first California native to become an admiral was born near Valley Springs? Or that Wallace was named after the older brother of one of the most famous naturalists of the modern era?
VALLEY SPRINGS -- March 31, 2008 -- One hundred and twenty-three years and one day after the first train of the San Joaquin & Sierra Nevada Railroad pulled into Valley Springs, the town will celebrate that event with a rededication of its historic train depot, a huge model railroad layout, an
BURSON, CA -- April 4, 2007 -- On April 25, 1885, the first train of the San Joaquin & Sierra Nevada Railroad pulled into the new town of Valley Springs. On April 25, 2007, that event will be marked for the first time in the history of Valley Springs.
BURSON, CA -- January 10, 2007 -- The “Something From Nothing” photo exhibition of early West Calaveras history will be at Ironstone Vineyards in Murphys from Saturday, February 17 (the first day of Presidents’ Day Weekend) through Sunday, March 18 (the day following the Murphys Irish Day and Iro
BURSON, CA -- September 15, 2006 -- Twenty years from now on the “Antiques Roadshow” someone will carry in a painting of historic Valley Springs and the appraiser is going to gush, “Do you realize that this is one of the first gallery-quality paintings of an historic building from that part of Ca
BURSON -- August 25, 2006 -- One hundred and twenty-five years after its founding, residents of the Calaveras County town of Wallace and their neighbors will for the first time in history honor the man after whom the town is named. In 1882, John Wallace surveyed the railroad line that went throu