Taking You Back in History: Priest Hotel Part II
By Margaret Corcoran Anker courtesy of Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society This month Taking You Back in History is sharing The...
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Nov 9, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Life at Priest Hotel
By Margaret Corcoran Anker courtesy of Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society This month Taking You Back in History is sharing The...
Scott Belser
Oct 26, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Strong Women of Tuolumne County in the Gold Rush (and Beyond) - Part II
By Scott Belser, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society A short-lived revival in gold mining...
Scott Belser
Oct 11, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Strong Women of Tuolumne County in the Gold Rush (and Beyond) - Part 1
By Scott Belser, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Throughout history many wise people have...
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Aug 23, 2023
49er Festival Partner Mechanics Bank: Where Relationships Matter
Tara Durland and her team at Mechanics Bank see the importance of having a strong financial system in a small community and they work...
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Aug 10, 2023
Taking You Back in History: The Big Ditch and The Big Gap
Written by Ted Carlsen for STCHS Newsletter, July 1988 “During the gold era of Groveland and Big Oak Flat, water, much needed by the...
Karen Davis
Jul 27, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Securing Basic Needs Part 2
By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Brothers Albert and August Mack were also...
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Jul 13, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Securing Basic Needs Part 1
By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society In our world today “laying in supplies” is...
Kathy Brown
Jun 29, 2023
Why Did They Name It That? Area Street Names Part 2
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Information on our area street names and...
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Jun 8, 2023
Why Did They Name It That? Area Street Names, Part 1
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society During the early days of the 1849 Gold Rush...
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May 25, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Memorial Day Part 2
By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society The oldest burial place in our locale is...
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May 11, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Memorial Day Part 1
By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society It was May 30th 1868 that Memorial Day was...
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Apr 20, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Headquartering Hetch Hetchy Part 2
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Aside from worker's housing and...
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Apr 6, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Headquartering Hetch Hetchy
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Soon after San Francisco selected the...
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Mar 22, 2023
About STCHS
By Harriet Codeglia The Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society (STCHS) was created in 1987 by a group of local residents who were...
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Mar 7, 2023
From Dream to Reality: Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum
By Harriet Codeglia, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about...
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Feb 21, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Look Out for Water, Part 2
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society In the foothill districts of the Sierra...
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Feb 9, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Look Out for Water, Part 1
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society What a winter we are having! Is the amount...
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Jan 25, 2023
Taking You Back in History: Big Oak Flat Fire of 1863, Part 2
By Scott Belser, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society The fire of October 1863 was an...
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Dec 21, 2022
Taking You Back in History: A Snapshot in Time, Part 2
Republication of Jean McClish's 1975 article on the centennial of Groveland's renaming and our downtown history continues. “1901 found...
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