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MOTHER LODE’S ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL WAR VETERAN TO BE HONORED FOR THE FIRST TIME

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

“SOMETHING FROM NOTHING” MAGAZINE FEATURES WEST CALAVERAS HISTORY

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?

MODEL RAILROADS, CLAMPERS, AND MORE TO HELP CELEBRATE VALLEY SPRINGS TRAIN TIMES

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

EXHIBITION OF RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS UNVEILED AT HISTORIC VALLEY SPRINGS DEPOT

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.

WEST CALAVERAS HISTORY EXHIBIT GOES TO MURPHYS

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

SEE ORIGINAL NEVER-BEFORE-EXHIBITED PAINTINGS OF HISTORIC VALLEY SPRINGS AT THE CHAMBER’S SEPTEMBER MIXER

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

PIONEER AFTER WHOM THE TOWN OF WALLACE WAS NAMED TO BE HONORED FOR THE FIRST TIME

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

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MUSEUM OF WEST CALAVERAS HISTORY SET TO OPEN!

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